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[Call to Order & Introductions]
I WILL GO AHEAD AND CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER AT 1 0 5 ON THIS FRIDAY AND WELCOME DEVIN AND MAUREEN TO OUR NEW MEMBERS.THANK YOU FOR REPRESENTING YOUR, OUR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS.
WITH THE ABSENCE OF CITIZENS COMMUNICATION, WE'LL MOVE
[Consider Approval of Minutes for September 10, 2021 CAN Board meeting. (Action Item)]
ON TO, UM, THE ACTION OF APPROVING OUR MINUTES FROM THE LAST BOARD MEETING.UM, I WOULD TAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE THOSE MINUTES.
NORA, DID YOU RAISE YOUR HAND? OKAY.
UM, UH, ANY DISCUSSION OR CORRECTIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE TO THOSE MINUTES? I JUST, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I APPRECIATE HAVING THE DETAIL IN THE MINUTES TO REMIND ME OF ALL THE FABULOUS THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT.
AND, UM, AND I'LL NOTE THAT, UM, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF MINOR CHANGES AND, UM, THAT WERE EMAILED TO US MORE KIND OF GRAMMATICAL AND JUST CLEANED UP STUFF.
SO THAT'S WHY THE MINUTES A VERSION TO THAT VERSION.
SO JUST FYI, IT'S JUST A COUPLE OF, COUPLE OF MINOR CHANGES.
AND I AGREE NORA, THE MINUTES ARE, ARE REALLY COMPREHENSIVE AND KEEP US ON TRACK.
I'M HEARING NO OBJECTIONS TO APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.
[Community Council Update]
NEXT I WILL PASS THE MIC TO NANCY GILLIAM.OUR CON CAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL, CHAIR.
I FEEL KIND OF GUILTY THAT I'M SITTING IN MY LIVING ROOM WORKING, BUT AT LEAST I HAVE A WINDOW.
SO, UM, COMMUNITY COUNCILS CONTINUING TO MAKE PROGRESS ON IT'S THREE DIFFERENT INITIATIVES.
THE STUDENT SECURITY GROUP IS ACTUALLY WORKING ON FINISHING UP AND FINALIZING THEIR REPORT.
AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE A CANNED BOARD MEETING TO OBSERVE THEM, BUT WE WILL GET THEM OUT AND ABOUT FOR COMMENTS AND STUFF, AS SOON AS THEY GET THAT REPORT FINISHED.
UM, LAST YEAH, LAST MONTH SEPTEMBER, WE HAD OUR SECOND IN OUR SERIES OF THREE MEETINGS ON MENTAL HEALTH.
WE HAD A PRESENTATION BY, UM, AMY, RACHEL AND DANIELLA BROWN THAT DISCUSS TRAUMA AND COMPARE THE FOOD INSECURITY AS WELL AS HOUSING INSECURITY TO TIE THE THREE TOPICS TOGETHER.
AND I THINK IT WAS A VERY INFORMATIVE MEETING TO KIND OF LOOK AT HOW, HOW EVENTS AND THE TRAUMATIC EVENTS AND THINGS LIKE COVID, BUT ALSO THINGS LIKE A DIVORCE IN YOUR FAMILY IMPACT THE MENTAL HEALTH STATE.
AND IT WAS A GOOD INTRO PRESENTATION.
NORA ALSO PRESENTED AND GAVE US INFORMATION ON, UM, THE COMMUNICATION AND THE REALLY WORKING ON GETTING OUT THE MESSAGE ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND TRYING TO REALLY WORK ON REDUCING STIGMA AND THAT PUBLIC CAMPAIGN.
AND I'M HOPING NORELL PROVIDE SOME MORE INFORMATION AND KIND OF A DESCRIPTION OF IT, BUT THAT WAS ALSO PRESENTED TO THE KANG COMMUNITY COUNCIL LAST MONTH.
AND THIS MONTH WE ARE HAVING THE FINAL OF THE THREE MEETINGS ON MENTAL HEALTH AND THEY'RE GOING TO ALSO BE INFORMATIVE AND HELP REALLY TIE A BOW AND A RIBBON SO WE CAN WORK ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT COMES OUT OF THAT.
UM, NORA, DO YOU WANT TO GIVE A LITTLE DESCRIPTION? UM, I ACTUALLY JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I WAS SO IMPRESSED BY THE TRAUMA INFORMED CARE PRESENTATION THAT YOUR COLLEAGUES MADE.
I WAS SO IMPRESSED THAT I HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGING THEM TO MAKE PRESENTATIONS TO OTHER, UH, ORGANIZATIONS SO THAT THERE'S MUCH MORE FAMILIARITY IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT TRAUMA INFORMED CARE AND HOW IT ACTUALLY FOCUSED ON THE INDIVIDUAL.
YOU TAKE THEM WHEREVER THEY ARE AND YOU DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO HELP THEM MOVE FORWARD, TO RESOLVE IN WHATEVER WAY, THE TRAUMA THAT IS AFFECTING THEIR LIVES.
SO I WAS TRULY IMPRESSED AND, UM, WE'D LOVE FOR ALL OF US TO SEE IT AT SOME POINT, MAYBE THAT'LL BE A RECOMMENDATION.
YEAH, THAT WAS A REALLY GOOD PRESENTATION.
AND THEY ACTUALLY PROVIDED SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON GOING ON IN SOME OTHER CITIES THAT ARE REALLY WORKING IN LOOKING AT TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE TO SPREAD THE WORD INTO THE SPREAD, THE UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE TO ME, TRAUMA INFORMED CARE AND I, AND IT WAS, IT WAS TWO COLLEAGUES THAT I WORKED WITH AT THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS THAT ARE WORKING ON TRAUMA INFORMED CARE TO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ACROSS THE STATE.
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SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY THAN I DID BEFORE I STARTED TO LEARN ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT HELPED EXPLAIN WHY PEOPLE REACT IN AND HOW THINGS THAT WE DO IN OUR DAY-TO-DAY INTERACTIONS CAN ACTUALLY BE TRIGGERED.IT WAS ACTUALLY, IT ISN'T REALLY GOOD PRESENTATION AND A REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN SECOND, THAT'S IT FOR MY UPDATE.
WE APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL IS PUTTING FORWARD AS A LEARNING COMMUNITY.
REALLY THINKING ABOUT ISSUES OF MENTAL WELLNESS, THINKING ABOUT FUTURE FOOD INSECURITY, THINKING ABOUT OUR HOUSING.
UM, SO WE'LL APPRECIATE SEEING THOSE OTHER COUPLE OF REPORTS COME OUT AS THEY'RE RELEASED AS WELL.
AND I KNOW THAT, UM, YOUR WORK PRESENTS SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO CREATE SOME THROUGH-LINES ALSO AT OUR, AT OUR REGIONAL SUMMIT TWO, SINCE YOU CAN MAKE A QUICK COMMENT, FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANTED TO THANK DAVID EVANS.
HE'S BEEN AN ADVISOR TO OUR MENTAL HEALTH WORK GROUP AND BRIEFED US AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS.
AND WE CHECKED IN WITH HIM ALONG THE WAY, AND HE'S GIVEN US SOME GOOD ADVICE HERE AS WE'RE WRAPPING UP OUR WORK.
AND, UH, THE PRESENTATION WE HAVE MONDAY IS GOING TO BE, AS NANCY SAID, DEALING WITH SOME, SOME BLUE SANDS THAT ARE AROUND TECHNOLOGY AND ACCESS, BUT WE'RE ALSO GOING TO HAVE A PRESENTATION BY FOLKS FROM, UH, DELL MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THE HOG FOUNDATION.
SO CERTAINLY I MENTIONED THAT TO YOU.
I KNOW HOG IS AFFILIATED WITH YOUR UNIT THERE.
WE CERTAINLY WANT TO INVITE YOU TO COME WITH YOU CAN, I KNOW THOSE EVENING MEETINGS ARE HARD, BUT I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT'S THE NEXT PANEL AND THESE CONNECTIONS WITH THE, WITH THE CAN, UH, MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS.
AND I'M HOPING THAT MAYBE THE GROUP THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS THE CC CCMH GROUP WITH POPULATION HEALTH AT DELL TWO WITH DR.
SO IF IT'S NOT, I HAVE ANOTHER CONNECTION FOR YOU.
NO, THIS IS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY.
IT'S FOCUSING ON YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH.
THANK YOU TO REITERATE THAT DAVID EVANS HAS BEEN INDISPENSABLE TO US IN THIS WORK AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR HIS GUIDANCE.
AND I APOLOGIZE FOR FORGETTING TO MENTION IT BECAUSE IF IT'S A FRIDAY AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE BEEN CRITICAL TO THIS TO THANK YOU.
BUT OF COURSE, YOU'RE TOO KIND.
THANK YOU FOR, FOR PROVIDING THAT FOUNDATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THIS GROUP TO DO THEIR WORK.
[Central Texas Regional Summit Update]
THE BULK OF OUR TIME SORT OF ON OUR REGIONAL SUMMIT IN PFLUGERVILLE RIGHT NOW, UM, TO TALK ABOUT SORT OF THE PLANS COMING FORTH.SO THANK YOU CAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL FOR, FOR, FOR DOING THIS, DOING THIS REALLY IMPORTANT WORK.
UM, BEFORE WE GREET OUR FRIENDS FROM PFLUGERVILLE, RACHEL, I REALLY WANTED TO HAVE REBEL.
YOU GIVE SORT OF OUR LATEST UPDATES ON LIKE THE INS AND OUTS OF THE REGIONAL SUMMIT, UH, WHERE WE ARE ALSO WITH ATTENDEES AND WHAT WE AS CAN PARTNERS NEED TO DO TO GET THE RIGHT FOLKS IN THE ROOM TO, TO LISTEN TO THIS REALLY ROBUST CONVERSATION THAT'S BEING PUT TOGETHER.
AND, UM, AND TAMRA THEN AFTER I, WELL, I WOULD REALLY LIKE YOU TO SORT OF TALK ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, INTRODUCE US TO THIS IDEA OF REALLY REGIONAL SUMMIT AS WE LOOK, UH, AT THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT ECONOMIC DIVERSITY, UH, ECONOMIC RECOVERY, INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC RECOVERY, AND A WORKFORCE.
IF YOU CAN GIVE US THE, THE WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, HOW, AND ALL THE DETAILS WE NEED TO KNOW TO BE GOOD PARTNERS.
WELL THANK YOU, UM, TO, AND EVERYONE FOR JOINING US TODAY ON A BEAUTIFUL FRIDAY, SO WE'LL TRY TO BE EFFICIENT, RIGHT.
UH, IN OUR REPORTS AND, UM, AND REALLY, IT'S KIND OF A, IT'S AN EXCITING TIME, JUST KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, AS WE PIVOT FROM, YOU KNOW, PANDEMIC RESPONSE RIGHT.
AND IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE'S STILL NOT A LOT OF PANDEMIC RELATED WORK.
UM, BUT THAT AT LEAST WE SEEM TO HAVE SOME BANDWIDTH, RIGHT.
TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THE PIVOT AND THE SHIFT.
UM, AND SO, UM, SO I THINK IT'S A GOOD BALANCE, YOU KNOW, TO KIND OF ADDRESS, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE, UH, OVERARCHING NEEDS AND DISCONNECTED WITH, UM, WHERE DO WE GO NOW, YOU KNOW, GIVEN WHERE WE'RE AT.
AND SO IT'S, UM, SO JUST A COUPLE, A COUPLE OF THINGS, UM, WE ARE GONNA BE MOVING OFFICES, FYI.
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OAK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY TO THE, UH, WHAT'S STILL OLD BROOK ELEMENTARY, BUT IT'S, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY CALL IT THE BROOK FACILITY OR THE BOOK, THE BROOK, UM, COMPLEX OR SOMETHING, BUT IT, UH, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, AS, AS THE CONDITIONS CHANGE ON CAMPUSES, RIGHT.AND, YOU KNOW, UM, ENROLLMENT CHANGES AND WE KIND OF HAVE TO MOVE TO ACCOMMODATE RIGHT.
THE NEEDS OF THE CAMPUS, WHERE WE HAPPEN TO BE IN, UH, UH, IN BROOKE ISN'T A SCHOOL ANYMORE.
SO HOPEFULLY AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THOSE, THOSE KINDS OF CHANGES DON'T AFFECT, RIGHT.
UH, OUR ABILITY TO REMAIN THERE, YOU KNOW, OTHER FACTORS MAY AFFECT OUR ABILITY TO REMAIN THEM.
UM, BUT, UM, UM, BUT WE'RE EXCITED AGAIN, JUST TO, YOU KNOW, KIND OF, UM, MOVE OUR OPERATION.
AND, UM, AND WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE LIKE A HYBRID SPACE WHERE MAYBE WE COULD HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, PART IN PERSON IN PART FOR TOOL KIND OF PARTICIPATION, LIKE FOR OUR COMMUNITY COUNCIL OR OUR WORK GROUPS.
SO IT'S KIND OF GIVEN US A CHANCE TO START WITH A CLEAN SLATE AND SAY, IF WE COULD DESIGN A KIND OF HYBRID WORK WORKSPACE AND MEETING SPACE, HOW WOULD WE DO IT? SO I'M PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL INVITE Y'ALL TO COME AND LOOK AT THE SPACE ONCE IT'S DONE, BUT IT'LL TAKE A LITTLE WHILE TO GET ALL THE TECHNOLOGY SET UP AND, UM, AND JUST, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING MOVED AND LOOKING HOW WE WANT IT TO LOOK, BUT THANKS TO AISD, THEY THEY'VE LITERALLY HOSTED IT HOSTED US SINCE DAY 1, 29 YEARS AGO, OR 28 YEARS AGO, WHATEVER THE NUMBER IS.
SO THANK YOU TO OUR AISB PARTNERS FOR THAT.
AND, UM, AND JUST KIND OF WORKING WITH US, RIGHT.
UH, TO, UH, UH, TO, UH, MAKE SURE AGAIN, UM, WHATEVER, WHATEVER SPACE WE HAVE WORKS FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AS WELL.
AND, UH, AND I DO WANT TO SAY, I THINK, I GUESS MAYBE IT WAS LAST WEEK TAMAR WHEN YOU HAD YOUR EVENT, THAT WAS PRETTY FUN.
I APPRECIATE IT, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY TO WATCH AND JUST A LOT OF, UH, I THINK AMAZING WORK HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND I'M EXCITED TO HEAR FROM OUR PARTNERS IN PFLUGERVILLE, YOU KNOW, UM, ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE EXCITING THINGS THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON AND, UH, OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY HAVE AVAILABLE AND FOR HOSTING THE SUMMIT.
SO, UM, SO WE'RE GOING TO, I'M JUST GOING TO SHOW A COUPLE OF SLIDES THAT, UH, SHOW YOU KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT AND, UM, UM, LET ME SEE IF I CAN REMEMBER HOW TO SHARE SCREEN SHARE.
UH, SO OF COURSE THIS IS OUR, UM, AND HOPEFULLY I HAVE THE RIGHT DATE IS NOVEMBER THE FIFTH.
UM, UM, AND THERE'S ACTUALLY A LOT GOING ON THAT DAY.
DIDN'T NOTICE, BUT THERE'S LIKE A BAD SUMMIT THAT
BUT, UM, BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO REPORT WE'RE UP TO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO KIND OF LIMIT, YOU KNOW, THE SPACE CAN PROBABLY HOLD 200, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP IT TO A HUNDRED OR 120 JUST TO KIND OF KEEP THE SPACE, UM, YOU KNOW, BE ABLE TO SPACE OUT A BIT, RIGHT.
THE TABLES AND EVEN WITHIN TABLES, KIND OF BEING ABLE TO SPACE OUT.
UM, AND, UM, AND WE'LL SEND OUT TO THE COVID PROTOCOLS, BUT I NEED TO FIGURE OUT, SO WHAT IS PFLUGERVILLE IS REQUIREMENTS, RIGHT? VERSUS THE, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE DIFFERENT, UH, REQUIREMENTS THAT WE NEED TO COMPLY WITH, BUT, UM, IT IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT.
SO THERE IS SOME DRIVE TIME, KEEP THAT IN MIND.
UM, AND, UM, THERE WILL BE LUNCH, RIGHT? AND OBVIOUSLY WE'LL HAVE SOME PASTRIES AND COFFEE OR SOMETHING AT NINE O'CLOCK OR EIGHT 30 WHENEVER WE GET ROLLING.
UM, SO WE'RE PRETTY EXCITED JUST TO BE PLANNING THIS KIND OF EVENT, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE A LITTLE OUT OF PRACTICE, BUT, UH, A VERY, I GET EXCITING JUST TO SEE THE RESPONSE.
AND I MEAN, WHEN WE APPROACH FOLKS ABOUT BEING ON THE PANEL OR SPEAKERS ARE JUST SO EXCITED RIGHT.
SO, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SAYING THAT THEY'RE NOT USUALLY EXCITED, BUT, UH, IT'S JUST THE, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, IN THIS AREA WHERE WE'RE OUT, MAYBE RUNNING ON LESS ENERGY THAN WE USUALLY DO, RIGHT.
OR WITH NOT AS MUCH ENERGY AS WE'D LIKE, THEN IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO FIND PEOPLE WHO GET, YOU KNOW, BRING THAT ENTHUSIASM AND EXCITEMENT.
UM, SO REAL QUICK ON THE, ON THE OUTLINE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, UH, PRETTY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID, UM, IN SAN MARCUS, UH, IN 2019.
UM, BUT USUALLY AGAIN, WE HAVE THE SPOTLIGHT OF OUR HOST COMMUNITY, RIGHT.
AND SO WE'LL HEAR A LITTLE, A LITTLE PREVIEW, RIGHT.
AND WHAT THEY'RE THEY MIGHT PRESENT, UM, UH, COMING UP HERE SHORTLY AT THIS MEETING, UM, WE HAVE, UH, TO SET THE CONTEXT ON SORT OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY, YOU KNOW, HOW TO, UM, LOOK AT IT FROM SORT OF EQUITY LENS IS WE HAVE, UH, STEVEN PEDAGO
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FROM UT, UM, AND HE'S WRITTEN A COUPLE OF RECENTLY WRITE A COUPLE OF BOOKS OR CREATED SOME RESOURCES ABOUT CREATING OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL RIGHT.HOW DO WE ENSURE, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE INCREASE OUR CHANCES FOR, YOU KNOW, AN EQUITABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY? UM, MAN, I DIDN'T FIX THE NUMBERING AGAIN, BUT, UH, THE, A SPOTLIGHT ON CENTRAL TEXAS, UH, WILL BE, YOU KNOW, UH, SORT OF TAG TEAM BETWEEN WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, CAPITAL AREA AND WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, RURAL CAPITAL AREA, JUST TO KIND OF GET, UH, UH, THE REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THAT.
UM, AND THEN THE, UH, SORT OF THE, THE LAST KIND OF BIG BUCKET OF TIME WILL BE, UM, A PRESENTATION ON INNOVATIVE PUBLIC, PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS, RIGHT.
HELPING TO ADVANCE AN EQUITABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY.
SO THAT WILL ADDRESS A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT ISSUES AND I'LL GET TO THOSE IN A SECOND.
UM, AND I THINK YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY IN THE PAST THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT THE, THE SUMMIT IS A SPRINGBOARD RIGHT TO THE WORK WE'LL BE DOING RIGHT OVER THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, YEAR TO 18 MONTHS, UM, AROUND THIS ART CONCEPT OR, OR THEME OF ENSURING AN EQUITABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY.
AND SO THESE ARE CURRENTLY SORT OF THE FOLLOW-UP FORUMS, WHICH WE'RE CALLING THE EXPANDING OPPORTUNITY FORUMS, BUT WE'RE HAVING, UH, ONE FORUM, YOU KNOW, UH, LOOKING AT SORT OF THE EXPERIENCE WOMEN HAVE HAD AND ARE HAVING RIGHT IN TERMS OF THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY, SORT OF THE, THEY EXPERIENCE RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES THAT, UH, THANKS TO OUR MINORITY CHAMBER MEMBERS, RIGHT.
WHO ARE GOING TO KIND OF HELP, UM, HELP, UH, TO PRESENT THAT, UM, WE HAVE THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS STRATEGIES IN THE WORKPLACE.
UM, AND THEN, AND THEN THE OTHER ONE THAT IS KIND OF A MORE RECENT, YOU KNOW, I'VE REACHED OUT TO UNITED WAY ABOUT, UM, EMPLOYERS WHO HAVE ADOPTED THEIR FAMILY FRIENDLY WORKPLACE MODEL.
AND, UM, BECAUSE WHAT STRUCK ME DURING THE PANDEMIC IS THAT IF YOU LOOK AT SORT OF, YOU KNOW, UH, THERE WERE SUGGESTED ACTIONS FOR EMPLOYERS, RIGHT.
TO CREATE A COMFORTABLE ENVIRONMENT, RIGHT.
FOR EMPLOYEES AS THEY COME BACK TO WORK, OR ALMOST ALMOST POINT BY POINT THE FAMILY-FRIENDLY WORKPLACE, UH, CRITERIA.
WHICH IS WHICH THE UNITED WAY DEVELOP, OR I SHOULD SAY EARTHLY MATTERS, CENTRAL TEXAS DEVELOPED A YEAR OR TWO BEFORE THE PANDEMIC.
SO I THINK IT'S, IT'S PRETTY INTERESTING HOW, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PANDEMIC, THERE WERE ALREADY THINGS WE KNEW COULD WORK IF PEOPLE WOULD JUST DO THEM.
AND NOW THERE'S A LOT OF ACTION TO IMPLEMENT ON, ON SOME OF THESE SOLUTIONS THAT FOLKS HAD ALREADY HAD IN MIND.
AND, UH, AND I THINK THAT'S IT ON THE SUMMIT, AGAIN, JUST KIND OF GIVING YOU A LITTLE PREVIEW OF WHAT THE SUMMIT WILL LOOK LIKE.
AND THEN, UM, AGAIN, THE FOLLOWUP THAT'S ALREADY PLANNED, WE'RE GOING TO LEARN SOME THINGS AT THE SUMMIT THAT WE'RE ALSO GOING TO WANT TO FOLLOW UP ON, RIGHT.
WITH THESE EXPANDING OPPORTUNITY FORUMS. SO JUST KNOW THAT, UM, WE'RE GOING INTO THIS SPECIFICALLY WITH THE IDEA THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO LEARN ABOUT WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON, OR, UH, GOING FORWARD AROUND THAT TOPIC OF ENSURING AN EQUITABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY.
AND WE'RE ALREADY AT ABOUT 50 SLOTS FULL OUT OF 120.
SO, UM, SO THAT'S WHY I KIND OF SENT THAT LITTLE NOTE, UH, YOU KNOW, IN MY EMAIL THIS MORNING ABOUT, UH, MAKING SURE YOU KIND OF GET THE WORD OUT TO YOUR FOLKS WHO YOU REALLY WANTED TO MAKE SURE ARE THERE, IF YOU CAN'T MAKE IT JUST PLEASE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, ASK, UH, SOMEONE FROM YOUR PARTNER, UH, ORGANIZATION TO ATTEND.
UH, AGAIN, IT, IT REALLY IS GOING TO INFORM WHAT WE DO RIGHT.
GOING FORWARD FOR THE NEXT YEAR, YEAR OR TWO.
SO I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
AND AS A PLANNER, I ALWAYS LIKE TO KIND OF SEE THAT, UM, WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT IS KIND OF BUILDING ON, ON, UH, ON, ON ALL OF OUR EFFORTS, RIGHT.
AND, BUT I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE AND, UH, PASS IT TO TAMAR RIGHT.
THEN THEY WILL PASS IT OVER TO OUR, OUR PFLUGERVILLE FRIENDS THAT ARE PATIENTLY WAITING.
WELL, I JUST WANT TO SAY ROLAND TEAM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, FOR PULLING THESE, UH, REALLY CALLING DOWN THE MESSAGES FROM OUR PLANNING MEETINGS INTO THIS REALLY STRONG PROGRAM.
I THINK THERE'S SOME REALLY AMAZING PEOPLE BEING INVITED, NOT ONLY FOR THE, THE SUMMIT ITSELF, BUT ALSO FOR ALL THE FOLLOWUP CONVERSATIONS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, KEEP ALL OF OUR THEMES IN PLACE.
AND I WOULD ALSO CONCUR FOLKS, IF THERE ARE FOLKS IN YOUR, IN YOUR ORGANIZATION WHO NEED TO BE THERE, PLEASE LET THEM KNOW.
AND ALSO, I WOULD SAY THAT IF YOU HAVE PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS OF YOUR OWN, WHO NEED TO BE THERE, OR, UM, CONSTITUENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT NEED TO BE THERE, PLEASE MAKE SURE, UM, THEY GET THEIR INVITE TOO.
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GIVE US A, SORT OF THE BROAD STROKES THERE, SO, AND THEN WE'LL INVITE HER, OUR WELCOME OUR FRIENDS FROM PFLUGERVILLE.AND THANK YOU RAUL FOR THAT UPDATE.
UM, I HOPE SINCE IT'S A, LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY, I HOPE THAT WE'LL ALL DOUBLE DOWN AND EXTEND INDIVIDUAL PERSONALIZED INVITATIONS TO FOLKS.
SO JUST TO BUILD ON A COUPLE OF THEMES, REALLY BRIEFLY, ONE RAUL, YOU MENTIONED REGIONAL APPROACH.
UH, I THINK THAT'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
WHAT EXCITES ME AS I LOOK AT THIS SUMMIT IS WE'RE VERY INTENTIONALLY, UH, BEING REGIONAL AND JUST TO KIND OF CALL IT OUT.
I THINK THAT CAN, HASN'T ALWAYS SAW OUR MISSION IS ALIGNED WITH REGIONAL BEING REGIONAL.
I THINK WE'RE BEEN VERY CLEARLY HISTORICALLY AUSTIN COUNTY AND, UH, CLEARLY I'M A BIG FAN OF AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, BUT I THINK THIS MAKES SENSE IN OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC RECOVERY.
SO KUDOS TO THE PLANNING TEAM FOR THAT.
UM, I ALSO, UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR NICE COMMENTS ABOUT WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS EVENT LAST WEEK.
NOT COINCIDENTALLY, THE MC OF OUR EVENT WAS OUR OWN RUDY METTAY OR SO THERE'S THAT FLUTE GROUP BILL THROUGH LINE THERE'S THAT CAN THROUGH LINE, UM, THESE THINGS ALL BUILD ON EACH OTHER.
AND I THINK THAT'S SUPER IMPORTANT AS WE LOOK TO LIFT UP OUR FRIENDS IN PFLUGERVILLE, UH, APPROPRIATELY.
SO, SO JUST A FEW NOTES FOR ME ABOUT THE SUMMIT.
I'VE BEEN SPENDING SOME TIME OVER THE LAST WEEK, PLUS REALLY DOUBLING DOWN ON, UH, HELPING PREPARE SOME OF THOSE GREAT SESSIONS THAT SUSHI REFERENCED.
WHO'S MY COUNTERPART IN THE RURAL CAPITAL WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS.
UH, AND I'M PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT THE BRIEF SEC SEGMENT THAT WE'LL PROVIDE TO YOU ALL TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW ABOUT LABOR MARKET JOBS.
AND WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO TACKLE THE QUESTION ON EVERYONE'S MIND, WHERE ARE THE WORKERS? SO WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO DIG INTO THAT AND HOPEFULLY OFFER SOME CONVERSATION STARTERS AND POINTS TO MAKE IT INTERACTIVE AND TO HAD AN OPPORTUNITY, PLEASURE TO SPEAK WITH DR.
STEVEN PEDAGO, UH, AND SUCHI IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
I AM EXCITED THAT HE WILL BE SPEAKING ABOUT INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
UH, HE, HIS, HIS, UH, SPEAKING PART ALONE IS WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION, UH, TO HER SUMMIT BECAUSE DR.
PEDAGO IS AN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNER WHO REALLY BELIEVES IN AND LIVES EQUITABLE, INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
SO I THINK HE'S GOING TO HAVE SOME REALLY INSIGHTFUL, UH, TIDBITS FOR US.
SO, UH, IF THAT DOESN'T PEAK YOUR INTEREST, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'LL.
I JUST THINK, I THINK A LOT OF DR.
PEDAGO, AND I THINK YOU GUYS WILL BE IMPRESSED IF YOU DON'T KNOW HIM.
SECOND POINT I'D LIKE TO MAKE VERY BRIEFLY IS, UH, JUST TO TIE IN, UH, ISRAEL SAID HOW WE'RE GOING TO USE THIS SUMMIT.
SO I ALWAYS ASK MYSELF WHEN I SEE COMPETING OBLIGATIONS ON MY CALENDAR, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT AM I GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS? AND HOW WOULD I, WHY WOULD I CHOOSE THIS OVER ANOTHER, UH, I APPRECIATE IT RO WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT THE SUMMIT AND THE INTERACTION BEING USED FOR CANNES, UH, AGENDA MOVING FORWARD.
AND, AND THAT, UH, MY COMMITMENT TO YOU IS THAT'S TRUE.
I MEAN, THIS IS A WORKFORCE SUMMIT, UH, FOCUSED ON EQUITABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY.
AND AS YOUR INCOMING CHAIR FOR 2022, UM, MY TOP PRIORITY IS GOING TO BE AROUND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN AND UNDERSTANDING OF REGIONAL WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDS.
UH, AS WE DOUBLE DOWN ON AN EQUITABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY, WE KNOW THAT'S GOING TO MEAN JOBS AND JOB ACCESS, UH, AND THE BEST POSSIBLE QUALITY JOBS.
SO, UH, SO EXCITED THAT, UH, I GET, UH, THANK YOU, UH, SUCHI AS CHAIR FOR ALLOWING THIS TO BE SO KIND OF A SOFT LAUNCH OF THAT UPCOMING AGENDA AT OUR NOVEMBER 5TH SUMMIT.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK TO YOU.
AND JUST WITH MY GRATITUDE TO EVERYONE INVOLVED FOR HOW FAR WE'VE COME IN, ALL THIS PLANNING.
PEDAGO BEYOND BEING BRILLIANT IS ALSO REALLY GENEROUS AND ALLOWED ME TO COME SPEAK IN HIS CLASS.
AND I AM NOT ONE A HUNDRED THAT SCHOLARLY IS HE, SO IT WAS PRETTY GREAT.
[Central Texas Regional Summit Host Spotlight: City of Pflugerville]
UM, WELL PLEASE WELCOME OUR FRIENDS FROM PFLUGERVILLE.WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE TO REALLY HELP US SET THIS CONTEXT ABOUT HOW CAN BECOMES, UH, YOU KNOW, TRUE TO ITS NAME, WHEREVER REGIONAL ORGANIZATION.
SO, UM, ROLE I'LL LET YOU DO THE HONORS.
YEAH, AND I DO WANT TO THANK, UH, EMILY AND AMY FOR KIND OF STEPPING IN FOR A COUNCIL MEMBER MATEO AND FOR TRAY.
UM, AND, UH, I BELIEVE EMILY IS A DIRECTOR OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.
YOU CAN CORRECT ME, UH, WHEN YOU START TALKING.
AND THEN I THINK AVI IS, UH, WITH THE PFLUGERVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, AND AMY'S PRESENTED TO US IN THE PAST WHEN WE'VE HAD OUR, UH, OUR PARTNER PROFILES.
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SO IT'S A PARTNER PROFILES OF SORTS, BUT REALLY LOOKING AT SORT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND, UM, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE EXCITING THINGS, YOU KNOW, CHALLENGES, BUT, YOU KNOW, EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL.UM, UH, REALLY APPRECIATE YOU MAKING TIME TO BE HERE, THIS, UH, YOUNGEST FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
UM, GOOD AFTERNOON AND THANKS FOR HAVING US, UM, AS WE'RE ALL SET, I'M EMILY WARREN ON THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIRECTOR FOR THE CITY OF PFLUGERVILLE, UM, AND HERE TODAY TO TALK, INTRODUCE AMY REALLY, AND SERVE AS PROXY FOR COUNCIL MEMBER MATEO.
UM, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE'VE CREATED IN PFLUGERVILLE AND ALSO FOR CHOOSING PFLUGERVILLE FOR THE REGIONAL SUMMIT IN NOVEMBER.
UM, I'M EXCITED TO, TO ATTEND THAT AND, AND LEARN ALL OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT YOU JUST SPOKE ABOUT.
UM, AMY MADISON IS JOINING ME TODAY.
AMY IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PFLUGERVILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
UH, ALSO KNOWN AS PCDC, UH, PCDC IS THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ARM OF THE CITY.
AND AMY'S HERE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE EFFORTS TO HELP OUR EFFORTS TO HELP BUSINESSES, UM, DURING THE PANDEMIC AND OTHER ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES THAT THE CITY AND PCDC HAD BEEN WORKING ON.
UM, SO WITH THAT, I WILL PASS IT OVER TO AMY.
AND AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL FOR ALLOWING US TO BE HERE TODAY.
UM, ROLE AND I GO WAY BACK, I THINK HIS FIRST DAY ON THE JOB OR CLOSE TO IT WAS WHEN I FIRST PRESENTED TO THIS GROUP AND WE WERE REALLY MISSING ON THAT DAY.
YOU ALL HAVE DONE SUCH AMAZING WORK, SO HONORED TO BE HERE, REPRESENTING OUR COMMUNITY, UH, WHICH HAS SUCH GREAT LEADERSHIP.
UM, YOU KNOW, EMILY AND I ARE VERY MUCH IN ALIGNMENT WHEN WE WORK THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO IT'S REALLY AN HONOR TO BE HERE WITH HER, UM, SUSHI, THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU'RE DOING THIS YEAR AS CHAIR.
AND FINALLY, UM, HAD I KNOWN THAT TAMRA ATKINSON WAS GOING TO BE HERE.
I, I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN SICK BEFORE I CAME.
I'M JUST SAYING I'M A LITTLE INTIMIDATED.
UH, SHE HAS DONE SUCH GREAT WORK IN THE REGION AND WHAT I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT TODAY FOR THE MOST PART, UM, IS A LOT OF THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT I'VE CREATED THROUGH HER, WITH HER, OR WITH OTHERS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH HER.
UM, YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT WORKFORCE, AND THAT HAS ONLY BECOME MORE APPARENT, NOT JUST DURING THE, THE, UH, PANDEMIC, BUT MORE RECENTLY WITH SOME OF THE ANNOUNCEMENTS WE'VE HEARD IN THE REGION.
GOOD, BAD AND INDIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT WAYS ON HOW THAT IMPACTS IS.
BUT TODAY WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT PFLUGERVILLE, BUT BEFORE I DO, I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT THE PCDC IS THE PROUD OWNER OF THAT WATERPARK.
AND NO, I DID NOT HAVE TO DON A BATHING SUIT AND RUN IT AT ANY POINT, BUT THERE WAS QUESTION AT A POINT THAT CAME IN TIME, WE HAVE TURNED THAT PARK AROUND.
IT IS A LOVELY, UH, OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU ALL.
AND THAT CONFERENCE CENTER IS, UH, REALLY, REALLY NICE.
UH, AND THE FOLKS THERE WILL TREAT YOU WITH RESPECT AND DIGNITY, AND I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME THERE, SO I HOPE I GET TO COME TO, SO I'M GOING TO SHARE MY SCREEN IF SOMEONE COULD, UH, DIS TO ALLOW ME TO DO SO, IT DOESN'T SHOW THAT I CAN SHARE SCREEN YET.
SO ROYAL, COULD YOU FIGURE OUT MAYBE HOW WE FIX THAT? IF NOT, I CAN JUST PROCEED WITHOUT IT.
LET ME SEE WHAT I CAN DO WITH THAT.
SO, UM, WE, LIKE I SAID, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO BE HERE TODAY, REPRESENTING OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, WE, UH, HAVE HAD A LOT OF THINGS HAPPEN IN PFLUGERVILLE GOOD AND BAD IN THE PAST TWO YEARS RELATED TO THE COVID.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THE TOPIC OF THE CONFERENCE, IT WAS JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO.
SO I REALLY DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO GET INTO IT INTO REAL DEPTH SO THAT I COULD BRING FORWARD, UH, MORE INFORMATION.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WE BEGIN, UH, WITH ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE CITIES IN THE COMMUNITY, IN THE, IN THE ENTIRE MSA.
AND ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE IN THE STATE, WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR HISPANIC, AMERICAN, INDIAN, ASIAN, BLACK, OR AFRICAN-AMERICAN, UM, POPULATION, YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAVE SIGNIFICANT, UH, INFLUENCE AND CERTAIN GREAT CULTURE THAT COMES AS A RESULT.
AND FINALLY, WHEN WE ADD IN THE VETERAN POPULATION, WE HAVE, UH, WE FEEL THAT WE HAVE ONE OF THE BEST OFFERINGS FOR, UM, RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION AS A RESULT OF THIS DIVERSITY, IT MAKES US STRONGER.
IT MAKES US A VERY CULTURAL IN NATURE.
AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO COMMENT THAT MORE RECENTLY, I'VE BEEN GETTING REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
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ON PROJECTS THAT ARE INTERESTED IN THE REGION THAT ARE ASKING FOR, UH, DETAILS ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE WORKFORCE INITIATIVES THAT THE CITY IS TAKING.AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT PFLUGERVILLE RIGHT NOW IS IN THE RUN FOR A PROJECT THAT WE WERE FIRST SELECTED AS A RESULT OF OUR ECONOMY.
BUT WE WERE ALSO SELECTED BECAUSE OF OUR DIVERSITY AND WE'VE PROVIDED A LOT OF DETAILED INFORMATION, UM, TO THAT PROSPECTS.
SO PROSPECTS AS THEY'RE COMING INTO THE COMMUNITY AND LOOKING IN THE REGION ARE ALSO LOOKING TO BE ABLE TO HIRE THAT POPULATION.
AND THEY WANT TO KNOW THAT POPULATION IS BEING HIRED.
UM, THE OTHER THING THEY LOOK AT IS WHAT ARE THE INITIATIVES THAT THE CITIES AND THE COUNTY AND THE, UM, THE ASSOCIATIONS LOCALLY ARE TAKING.
SO WE PUT TOGETHER A FAIRLY COMPREHENSIVE, UH, TALKING PAPER FOR THEM, I THINK COULD BE IMPROVED, UH, THROUGH THE WORK OF THIS GROUP, UH, AS WELL ROLE.
SO I HOPE TO WORK WITH YOU DIRECT ON TRYING TO LEARN WAYS THAT WE CAN BETTER DEMONSTRATE THAT IN A FUTURE FOR THE PROSPECTS THAT WE HAVE.
SO, UM, AS YOU KNOW, WE ARE A VERY GROWTH ORIENTED COMMUNITY, UH, NOT THE FASTEST, BUT ONE OF THE MOST DENSE CON UH, UH, UH, COMMUNITIES, THE ENTIRE AREA THAT WAS PROVED UP BY THE 20, 20 CENSUS.
BUT WE ARE, UH, EXCEEDING EXPECTATION REALLY ON WHERE WE ARE WITH POPULATION.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE, I THINK WITH ANNEXATION, THIS NUMBER COULD ONLY GET BIGGER, AND OF COURSE, EMILY COULD SPEAK TO THAT VERY EASILY.
SO WHO IS THE PFLUGERVILLE CDC? FIRST OF ALL, WE ARE FUNDED BY A HALF CENT SALES TAX.
UM, SINCE TWO, 2001 THAT MAKES US 20 YEARS OLD, JUST THIS PAST AUGUST.
UM, WE ARE, UH, AN ENTITY OF THE CITY.
THEY ARE AUTHORIZING BODY AND OUR BOARD AND MYSELF ENDED UP REPORTING TO THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE WORK THAT WE DO FOR THE COMMUNITY.
AND WHAT DO WE DO? WE INVEST IN PROJECTS THAT MEANS TRYING TO RECRUIT NEW COMPANIES.
AND WE ALSO LOOK AT RETAINING PRIMARY JOBS IN PFLUGERVILLE.
THAT MEANS WORKING WITH OUR EXISTING BUSINESSES.
WE ALSO INVEST IN MARKETING TOOLS AND OUR, THE, UM, UH, ADVERTISER, IF YOU WILL, AND PROMOTE, OR FOR PFLUGERVILLE GLOBALLY AS A PREMIER LOCATION, BUT MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING WE DO I THINK IS TO BUILD WITH OUR PRIMARY EMPLOYERS AND OUR INFLUENCES, WHICH IS PSYCH SELECTORS AND REALTORS.
I JUST RETURNED FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ASSET MANAGERS COUNCIL MEETING.
FORTUNATELY, ONE OF TWO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EDS REPRESENTED ON THEIR INTERNATIONAL BOARD AS OF TUESDAY, AND, UH, EXCITED TO BE PART OF FORTUNE 500, UM, SITE SELECTORS AND REALTORS AS PART OF THAT PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION.
BUT ALL OF WHAT WE DO IS TO TRY TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THOSE FOLKS SO THAT THEY KNOW WHO WE ARE AND WHEN THEY HAVE PROJECTS, THEY CONSIDER US.
BUT WE ALSO WORK WITH LOCAL PARTNERS AND SOME OF OUR PARTNERS THAT ARE REPRESENTED HERE TODAY.
UM, I THINK WE GOT CAN ON HERE.
UM, SO, UH, WE'RE ADDING YOU AS WELL, UH, BUT WE DO WORK VERY, VERY CLOSELY WITH ALL THESE ORGANIZATIONS FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER.
SOME IS INVOLVED IN RECRUITMENT.
OTHER IS IN WORKING ON WORKFORCE.
UH, THE ARMA ORGANIZATION COURT IS, IS REALLY LOCAL, UH, FOCUSED ON, UH, MANUFACTURING.
WE'VE WORKED WITH RECENTLY WITH AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
WE WORK WITH OUR LOCAL CHAMBER.
WE WORK WITH CHAMBERS THROUGHOUT THE REGION AS WELL, AND WE'VE BEEN A PARTNER WITH THEM.
SO WE FEEL AT HOME HERE, IF YOU WILL, BECAUSE WE'VE KIND OF BEEN WORKING WITH YOU FOR A LONG TIME IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
SO WHEN COVID HIT, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS WE DID WAS WE RAISED MONEY, PRIVATE FUNDS, UH, AND THE PCDC MATCHED SOME OF THOSE FUNDS TO DO A GRANT CALLED THE PFLUGER FUND THAT WAS RUN BY THE CHAMBER WITH THAT.
WE, UH, WE DISTRIBUTED A LITTLE OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND AND THAT WAS BASED ON PAYING BILLS AS OPPOSED TO ACTUAL GRANTS, UM, TO HELP OFFSET THE ISSUES THAT HAPPEN TO MAIN STREET.
IF YOU WILL REMEMBER SERVICE AND RETAIL COURSEWORK HARDLY HURT ALONG WITH RESTAURANT.
AND, AND SO AFTER THAT, WE WERE ABLE TO PARTNER WITH THRIVE, UH, AND WITH, UM, THE, UH, TRAVIS COUNTY, UH, WITH CARES GRANT FUNDING, WHICH THE PCDC HELPED TO ADMINISTER, UH, THROUGHOUT THAT TIME, WE ONLY HAD ABOUT 10 DAYS TO GET IT UP AND RUNNING.
AND THEN FOLLOWING THAT, UH, REVIEWED, I THINK OVER 61 APPLICATIONS OUT OF THOSE 37 QUALIFIED
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WITH THE RULES THAT WERE A PART OF THIS PROGRAM, UM, WE WERE VERY PROUD TO REPORT THAT 59% WERE WOMEN OR MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES OUT OF THOSE THAT WERE AWARDED THE TOTAL FUNDED WAS JUST OVER A MILLION DOLLARS FOR A COMMUNITY OF 75,000 PEOPLE.THAT IS REALLY, UM, IT'S REALLY AN OUTSTANDING DOLLAR AMOUNT.
AND THEN WITH OUR AWARDS BY TIER, UH, WE TRIED TO REPRESENT DIFFERENT GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY OF DIFFERENT SIZES.
UM, THE THRIVE GRANT THAT WAS RUN BY, UH, UH, THE COUNTY WAS 20 OR LESS, AND WE WERE ACTUALLY, THEIRS WAS STILL OPEN WHILE WE HAD OURS JUST RAMPING UP AND PEOPLE THAT WERE IN PFLUGERVILLE COULD QUALIFY FOR EITHER PROGRAMS. SO WE TRIED TO DIVERSIFY WHAT WE WERE DOING, AND IN THE END, WE WERE VERY HAPPY TO SEE HOW WE ENDED UP ON THIS.
IT REALLY HELPED KEEP A LOT OF BUSINESSES OPEN AND RUNNING.
UH, WE ARE DUE ON OUR ANNUAL CHECKUP ON THEM, UH, THAT WILL BE DONE IN NOVEMBER, AND WE'LL BE PROVIDING A FULL REPORT BACK TO THE BOARD, TO THE COUNCIL IN DECEMBER.
SO THE OTHER THING THAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC, UH, WAS THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF AMAZON.
UM, WE STARTED RECRUITING THIS PROJECT, UM, WAY BEFORE IT WAS ANNOUNCED.
SO OBVIOUSLY THAT IS THE CASE NEARLY TWO YEARS PRIOR TO IT BEING ANNOUNCED.
WELL, IT WAS JUST OVER TWO YEARS, ACTUALLY FROM THE TIME WE STARTED SEARCHING AND FOUND THE RIGHT SPOT AND GOT OUT OF THE GROUND, AND I WANT TO THROW A SHOUT OUT TO EMILY AND HER TEAM, UH, AT THE CITY, THEY DID A BEAUTIFUL JOB IN GETTING THIS PROJECT UP AND RUNNING.
IT WAS IN A MUD DISTRICT, ALL ENTITLEMENTS REQUIRED, UH, SEWER ROADS, EVERYTHING HAD TO BE BROUGHT TO THE SITE.
UM, IF YOU HAD TO START FROM SQUARE ZERO, UH, THAT'S ABOUT WHERE WE WERE WITH THIS PROJECT.
AND IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR THEIR HARD WORK, WE WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY HIRING, UH, WITH AN AVERAGE WAGE OF APPROXIMATELY 31,000 PLUS BENEFITS IN PFLUGERVILLE, WE'VE ADVERTISED FOR THESE JOBS.
WE'RE VERY EXCITED BECAUSE WE FEEL LIKE THIS IS GOING TO HELP FILL A NICHE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, OUR, UH, UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS RUNNING RIGHT AT 4.9%.
THAT'S MUCH HIGHER THAN, UH, THE REGION OVERALL.
WE KNOW WE STILL HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO RETURN TO WORK BECAUSE EITHER THEY'RE UNSKILLED OR, UM, THEY'RE, UH, COMPANIES, UH, OR BUSINESSES THAT THEY HAD ARE NO LONGER THERE, OR THEY, THEY HAVE NO JOBS.
SO WE'RE WORKING CLOSELY WITH WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS AND MY FRIEND TAMRA IN ORDER TO, UH, RESOLVE THAT.
BUT WE ALSO DID OUR OWN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE JOBS AND ASSISTED AMAZON IN THE HIRING PROCESS, WHICH WE HAD OUR PARTNERS FOR, FOR SOLUTIONS, CAPITAL AREA, AND INVOLVED IN THAT, UH, AND CAP METRO AS WELL, UH, LOOKING AT TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS AND, UM, HIRING PROCESS.
SO WE ENDED THE YEAR REALLY WELL IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC MEASUREMENT, MEANING THE NEW VALUES THAT WERE PUT ON THE GROUND, UH, 317 MILLION CAP EX UH, IN AUSTIN THAT MAY NOT SOUND LIKE MUCH, BUT IN PFLUGERVILLE THAT'S A LOT AND A TOTAL OF 4.2 MILLION SQUARE FEET.
UH, ANOTHER FIRST FOR THE COMMUNITY IN A YEAR, UH, IN THOSE EIGHT PROJECTS IN 1,478 JOBS, THE DIFFERENT JOBS, WE HAD REALLY REFLECT THE DIVERSITY OF THE COMMUNITY AS WELL.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE OUR AVERAGE WAGE THERE, UH, THAT IS REALLY, REALLY GOOD IN TERMS OF, UH, RECRUITMENT, UH, AVERAGE WAGE.
AND SO FAR, EVERYONE HAS BEEN IN GOOD SHAPE IN TERMS OF FINDING WORKFORCE.
SO THE OTHER THING THAT WE DID AND STARTED DURING THE PANDEMIC AND HAVE MOVED INTO MORE RECENTLY, HAS BEEN TO DEVELOP REAL INTENTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH ALL OF THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE WORK WITH.
IT'S ONE THING TO SAY, WE WORK WITH THEM, BUT IT'S ANOTHER THING TO BE VERY, VERY INTENTIONAL ABOUT IT.
SO WHAT WE'VE DONE WITH SOME OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS IS TO SIT DOWN WITH THEM AND SAY, HOW CAN WE WORK WITH YOU? AND CAN WE PUT THAT IN MOU THAT THESE ARE OUR GOALS IN HOW WE WANT TO RESPOND TO ONE ANOTHER? AND IT HAS BEEN REALLY, REALLY HELPFUL.
UM, IF I WERE A SMALL MAKING RECOMMENDATION FOR A SMALL COMMUNITY, SOMEWHERE ABOUT HOW CAN THEY BUILD THOSE KINDS OF RELATIONSHIPS, MOU ARE VERY, VERY HELPFUL BECAUSE IT TAKES TIME TO PUT IT TOGETHER.
YOU HAVE TO REVIEW THEM ON A REGULAR BASIS, AND YOU ALSO HAVE TO BE DETAILED ABOUT THE KINDS OF THINGS AND UNDERSTAND THAT ORGANIZATION WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT THEY CAN DELIVER AND WHAT YOU CAN RESPOND WITH.
SO WE'VE DONE THAT WITH SKILL POINT ALLIANCE, A SKILLED TRADES AND MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATION, UH, ALSO WITH NANA ACADEMY OF THOSE, ALL THAT ORGANIZATION, NOT ONLY, UH, HELPS, UH, TO TRAIN APPLIANCE
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REPAIR TECHNICIANS FOR LOCAL EMPLOYERS, WE NEED THAT DONE FOR THERE'S A REAL, UM, DEMAND FOR APPLIANCE REPAIR, UH, TECHNICIANS NOW, AND IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND EMPLOYMENT OR EMPLOYEES.AND THE OTHER THING THEY DO IS THEY HELP TO TRAIN PEOPLE TO GO INTO THIS BUSINESS AND HANG A SHINGLE AS AN ENTREPRENEUR FITS WELL FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, ANOTHER STEP WE TOOK, UM, WE HAVE SEVERAL MOU IS ACTUALLY WITH WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, CAPITAL AREA.
UM, ONE OF MY, UH, UH, EMPLOYEES, VERONICA RAMIREZ, UM, FROM PCDC REPRESENTS VETERANS ON THE BOARD AND WE'RE REAL PROUD OF WHAT SHE'S DONE.
SHE'S OUR MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER.
AND AS A RESULT OF THAT, WE'VE BEEN DOING AN AWFUL LOT OF ADVERTISEMENT OF EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WITH WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS TO TRY TO GET THAT NOT ONLY TO OUR COMMUNITY, BUT OUR GREATER, UM, UH, AUDIENCE AS WELL, THE AMAZON GET READY WAS ALSO A FUNCTION OF ALL OF US WORKING TOGETHER.
WE PREPARED TO TRY TO GET PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY, READY TO RESPOND.
ALL THE HIRING IS DONE ELECTRONICALLY.
SO, UH, GETTING THEM READY, GETTING THEM TO UNDERSTAND HOW THEY COULD GET NOTIFICATIONS.
AND THEN WHAT AMAZON HAS TO OFFER.
UM, WE WORKED WITH BCL OF TEXAS ON SMALL BUSINESS LOANS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, UM, AS WELL AS YOU KNOW, AND THOSE WERE ALL GRANTS, BUT WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH THEM ON LOW INTEREST LOANS OR NO INTEREST LOANS, UH, FOR SOME OF OUR SMALLER MINORITY BUSINESSES.
AND THOSE LOANS ARE DIRECTLY TARGETED TO THOSE SMALL BUSINESSES.
AND WE ARE WORKING WITH THEM ON AN MOU FOR SOME SMALL BUSINESS TRAINING.
IT'S ONGOING TRAINING FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP FINALLY, AND NOT LAST THAT ARE LEAST IS THE FLOP PFLUGERVILLE LIBRARY, WHICH WE BEGAN WORKING WITH ABOUT 2016.
I MET WITH THE LIBRARIAN THAT WAS AT AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE IN, UM, PHILADELPHIA.
AND SHE WORKED THERE AT THE LIBRARY AND SHE REALLY GOT ME EXCITED ABOUT SOME THINGS THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO WITH THE LIBRARY.
OUR LIBRARY HAS ALWAYS BEEN PROGRESSIVE.
AND SO WE STARTED LOOKING AT PLATFORMS THAT WE COULD ADD.
AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AS WELL.
SO LINKEDIN LEARNING AND GAIL BUSINESS PLATFORM KIND OF CAME OUT OF THAT, UH, PFLUGERVILLE MANUFACTURING CADEMY, AND THIS WAS ONE THAT TAMRA AND I WORKED ON WITH AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ON TEXAS WORKFORCE AND PRIVATE BUSINESS.
UH, AS YOU RECALL, EVERYTHING WAS SHUT DOWN.
SCHOOLS WERE SHUT DOWN AND WE HAD RECEIVED A GRANT FROM THE TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION.
AND WE, WE, WHAT WE WANTED TO DO WAS TO DEVELOP THE PFLUGERVILLE MANUFACTURING ACADEMY.
SO OUT OF THAT CAME THE CREATIVITY TO ACTUALLY GO TO OUR LOCAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURERS, TO BUILD A 3D TRAINING PROGRAM, TO GIVE AWARENESS ABOUT MANUFACTURING, TRY TO EXCITE RESIDENTS AND OTHERS THAT WERE LOOKING FOR WORK IN SEEKING, UH, MANUFACTURING JOBS WITH THAT.
UH, WE WERE ABLE TO TALK THREE OF OUR LOCAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURERS THAT ARE ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS AND SHIP ALL OVER THE WORLD.
WE WERE ABLE TO BRING THOSE FOLKS IN, TO TRAIN ON THAT EQUIPMENT.
WE RENTED THEIR SPACE AND THEY PROVIDED AN ADDITIONAL TECHNICIAN ALONG WITH OUR INSTRUCTOR FROM ACC.
WE DEVELOP THE CURRICULUM FROM SCRATCH FOR THIS PROGRAM, AND WE'RE REAL PROUD TO ANNOUNCE WE LAUNCHED IT IN FEBRUARY.
FINALLY, WE WORKED ON IT AND DURING THE COVID TIME.
AND, UM, OF COURSE EVERY TIME IT'S NEVER REALLY ENDED, BUT, UH, SEVEN MONTHS, UH, UH, HAS BEEN AN UP AND RUNNING.
WE'VE DONE 10 SESSIONS, 45 STUDENTS, BUT NINE OF THOSE WERE EXTERNSHIPS.
AND THE EXCITEMENT AROUND THAT IS THAT THE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER, WHEN THEY DO AN EXTERNSHIP THROUGH OUR ISD OR ANY IST FOR THAT MATTER, THAT MUST DEVELOP AND TEACH AT LEAST A MINIMUM OF THREE DAYS CURRICULUM TO THEIR STUDENTS.
THEY MAKE, UH, A REAL GOOD, UH, CONNECTION WITH THE COMPANIES THAT WE HAVE IN PFLUGERVILLE AS WELL.
SO WE CAN KEEP PROGRAMMING GOING IN THE FUTURE, BUT OUT OF THE 20 STUDENTS THAT THEY HAVE APPROXIMATELY IN SOME HAVE MORE IN A CLASSROOM, WE ESTIMATE THAT AT LEAST 180 STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE TRAINING, RECEIVE TRAINING.
AS A RESULT OF THIS PROGRAM, PCDC FUNDED IT THROUGH A GRANT IT'S CALLED A HIGH DEMAND JOB TRAINING GRANT THROUGH TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION THAT COMES TO THE LOCAL WORKFORCE.
SO THROUGH TAMRA'S ORGANIZATION, WE WERE ABLE TO FUND AND MATCH THOSE DOLLARS FROM THE PCDC.
AND IN ORDER TO RUN THIS PROGRAM, YOU CAN TELL I'M REAL EXCITED ABOUT THAT ONE.
UM, THE NEXT ONE IS RELATED TO, AGAIN, THE LIBRARY LIBRARY IS A WONDERFUL PLACE.
I MEAN, WHO DOESN'T LOVE A LIBRARY THERE'S SO MUCH THERE YOU CAN LEARN AND DO.
AND A LOT OF OUR PEOPLE LOCALLY, WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF MONEY, THEY DO HAVE ACCESS
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TO THAT LIBRARY AND CO GO IN AND DO RESEARCH.AND IF THEY WANT TO START THEIR OWN BUSINESS, OR IF THEY WANT TO JUST IMPROVE WHAT THEY'RE DOING, THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE LIKELY GOING TO GO.
SO WE DECIDED TO BUILD A PROGRAM WITH LINKEDIN LEARNING THERE AND OFFER IT FREE TO ALL RESIDENTS.
BUT WE ALSO ADDED A CAVEAT THAT NON-RESIDENT WORKFORCE COULD ALSO HAVE ACCESS TO IT.
SO OUR LOCAL, SMALL BUSINESSES, EVEN OUR MEDIUM SIZED BUSINESSES, EVEN MY STAFF HAVE ACCESS TO ALL THESE COURSES AND CAN TAKE THEM.
IT IS MULTILINGUAL, SO THAT IT MEANS IT'S OPENING UP TO ALL DIFFERENT DIVERSE POPULATIONS.
SO OUR PROGRAM WITH THEM HAS BEEN TO EXPAND THAT AND TO PUSH THAT OUT WITH GAIL, SOMETHING THAT WE JUST RECENTLY ADDED THIS PROGRAM IS MORE ENTREPRENEURIAL IN NATURE AND PROVIDES THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO GO THROUGH AND LEARN HOW TO DO A BUSINESS PLAN, A IT WORKS YOU THROUGH THAT PROGRAM, DEMOGRAPHICS NEEDED IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THAT PLAN AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP OVERALL, WHAT IS AN ENTREPRENEUR? WHAT DO THEY NEED TO DO? WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT THEY NEED TO BE CAREFUL OF? SO THOSE TWO PROGRAMS ALONE HAVE BEEN SIGNIFICANT FOR US THIS YEAR.
WE'VE ENDED UP IN RECRUITMENT AND EXPANSION, JUST THROWING A LITTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HERE, NINE PROJECTS.
WELL, WE DIDN'T HIT 4.2 MILLION SQUARE FEET, BUT WE DID TRY 602, UM, BUT 561 JOBS.
WE HAVE NOT ANNOUNCED EVERYTHING YET.
WE STILL HAVE SOME THAT, UH, HAVE NOT ANNOUNCED.
UH, BUT WE HAD A VERY STRONG YEAR THIS YEAR AND OUR PIPELINE IS VERY FULL.
SO TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHEN I SAID, YOU KNOW, AMAZON COMING AND IT WAS KIND OF THE JUST-IN-TIME DELIVERY FOR WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH COVID BECAUSE I KNEW, UM, THERE WOULD BE OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE OUT OF WORK TO GO TO WORK, UH, IN A, IN A CAREER TYPE, I MEAN, IN A, IN A NEW PROFESSION, A NEW JOB TYPE THAT WOULD OFFER BENEFITS.
AND WITH THE AVERAGE WAGE MINIMUM WAGE AT $15 AN HOUR, THAT MAKES IT AFFORDABLE.
AND, UM, IT WOULD FILL SOME GAPS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
BUT WHEN WE DID THAT, IT KIND OF ROSE THE TIDE IN THE COMMUNITY.
NOW WE'RE HEARING FROM OUR MANUFACTURING FIRMS STRUGGLING, UM, TO NOT ONLY FIND SKILL LATER LABOR, BUT ALSO THE ISSUE WITH HAVING TO RAISE THEIR, UH, ENTRY-LEVEL UM, MINIMUM WAGE AND WORKING WITH THEM HAS BECOME REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT AND CRITICAL.
AND NOW WITH FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM TESLA AND TESLA HQ AND SANSOM 2.0, I'M CALLING IT A LI UM, LURKING AROUND REALLY TAKING CARE OF THOSE SMALLER MANUFACTURERS IS GOING TO BE A REAL SIGNIFICANT ROLE FOR US IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, AND THEN EVERYONE IS EXPENSE EXPERIENCING, UH, SUPPLY CHAINS BEING DISRUPTED.
AND THERE'S REALLY NO SIGN OF THAT ENDING.
AND WITH THE PEOPLE RETIRING AND NOT IN THE WORKFORCE, IT REALLY HAS SHRUNK, UH, THAT POOL OF LABOR FOR SOME OF THE SKILLED WORK AND HOUSING COSTS CONTINUE TO RISE.
SO IN ORDER TO LIVE IN THE AREA, UM, TRYING TO FIND EITHER AFFORDABLE HOUSING OR, UM, TO GET INTO, TO, UH, JOBS THAT PROVIDE BETTER WAGES IS REALLY THE STRUGGLE THAT WE SEE.
AND I THINK WE SEE ACROSS THE COUNTRY, BUT WE HAVE UNDER-SKILLED WORKFORCE THERE AVAILABLE THAT NEEDS TRAINING COURSE.
MY FRIEND TAMAR KNOWS ABOUT THAT.
SO I PICKED UP SOME OF YOUR NUMBERS TO SHARE.
UH, 69% OF UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMANTS IN TRAVIS COUNTY HAVE LESS THAN A ASSOCIATES DEGREE.
AND SO THAT KINDA IS A MISMATCH FOR SOME OF THESE JOBS THAT ARE BEING ANNOUNCED.
AND IN FACT, RIGHT NOW WITH THE JOBS THAT ARE BEING ADVERTISED AND POSTED IN HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT AND COMPUTER MATHEMATICAL OCCUPATIONS, THEY ARE STRUGGLING TO FIND PEOPLE TO FILL THOSE JOBS IN MANY CASES.
SO WHAT ARE OUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE? WELL, WE REALLY FEEL THAT THE PFLUGERVILLE LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP IS REALLY STRONG THAT WE CAN, WE CAN EXTEND THAT.
AND BY USING THAT LIBRARY NETWORK MAY BE ABLE TO PERHAPS FIND MORE ENTREPRENEURS THAT ARE STRUGGLING AND HELP THEM FIND THE ASSISTANCE THEY NEED.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH OUR SMALL BUSINESSES TO BENEFIT, UH, THE THEM WITH FREE UPSKILL TRAINING.
UH, EVEN THEIR EMPLOYEES CAN DO THAT FROM HOME.
AND SO IT ALLOWS A LOT OF OPTION.
I MEAN, I ALLOW MY EMPLOYEES TO EVEN TAKE CLASSES ONLINE DURING WORK HOURS.
SO, AND IT, YOU KNOW, JUST TRY TO GET MORE AND MORE COMPANIES AWARE OF WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE CAN DO FOR THEM.
UH, TECHNICAL AND LIBRARY ASSISTANCE, UM, FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURS IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE LIBRARY.
WE HAVE REALLY GREAT STAFF THERE.
AND SO WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER ON HOW WE CAN REACH CAPACITY THERE ON, UH, MEETING
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THE NEED FOR OUR SMALL BUSINESSES.UM, WE ALSO HAVE EXPANDED OUR SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT.
WE HAVE A FULL-TIME PCDC EMPLOYEE THAT WE JUST ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK THAT IS FOCUSED ON LOCAL BUSINESS AND WORKFORCE.
UH, CRYSTAL CONNOLLY IS OUR NEW, UH, BUSINESS RETENTION AND WORKFORCE DIRECTOR.
AND WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO SEE WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GO WITH THAT ENERGY.
UH, WE ARE EXPLORING LOW INTEREST, NO INTEREST LOANS AND CONTINUING THAT WITH BCL.
UM, WE DO PLAN TO DO AN ASSESSMENT OF MICRO BUSINESS NEEDS.
WE DO HOPE TO BE ABLE TO SHOW ETHNICITY IN THAT STUDY AS A PART OF WHAT IS GOING ON.
AND FINALLY, A MANUFACTURING WORKFORCE STUDY IS PLANNED WITH TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION AND WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, CAPITAL AREA.
ANYTIME YOU WORK WITH YOUR PARTNERS, YOU'RE GOING TO BE BETTER THAN WHEN YOU DON'T AND INCREASING OUR MARKETING SUPPORT FOR FREE SERVICES AND TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, CAPITAL AREA, AND OTHERS HAS BEEN A MAJOR, UH, UH, CENTER OF OUR CONCENTRATION THIS YEAR.
UM, JUST TRYING TO GET PEOPLE FOUND AND GET THEM TOLD IF THEY CAN LEARN ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO, THEN WE CAN POTENTIALLY GET THEM INVOLVED AND GET THEM TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO HELP THEM.
UH, SO MANY SERVICES ARE FREE, SO MUCH SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE AND JUST TRYING TO MATCH THEM TOGETHER IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE HELPING TO DO.
AND WE'RE WILLING TO DO FOR ANY OF THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE WORK WITH.
UM, WE ARE BUILDING AWARENESS OF MANUFACTURING CAREERS.
WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO DO THAT AND DO THAT THROUGH THOSE PARTNERSHIPS WITH TWC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS AND ACC AND OUR PRIVATE BUSINESSES.
THEY LOVE THE PROGRAM THAT WE JUST DID, AND WE'RE LOOKING TO DO MORE OF THAT AND THEN TO MATCH THE FREE TRAINING AND SUPPORT SERVICES, AS I NOTED, UH, DIRECTLY WITH THOSE THAT NEED THEM AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO THAT IS, WHO THAT SERVER, I AM MENTIONED WITH THAT ALL CLOSE AND TAKE ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
IT'S BEEN AN HONOR TALKING TO YOU TODAY AND, UH, I WASN'T SURE WHAT YOU NEEDED WANTED OR ANYTHING, BUT RAUL, THIS IS WHAT I COULD PULL TOGETHER IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.
I WILL JUST SAY, THIS IS AMAZING.
AND THANK YOU, EMILY AND AMY FOR BEING HERE AND SORT OF SETTING THE STAGE FOR US.
I THINK WE'RE ALL REALLY VERY EXCITED TO HEAR ABOUT WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN PFLUGERVILLE AND, AND ALL THE, THE MODELS THAT YOU'VE BEEN SETTING FOR FOR THE ENTIRE REGION.
UM, I TOO AM THRILLED ABOUT THAT LIBRARY PROGRAM.
SO THANK YOU FOR SHARING ALL OF THAT.
UM, BUT YEAH, I, I, IF FOLKS HAVE QUESTIONS FOR OUR GUESTS, WE CAN TAKE THEM NOW OR COMMENTS.
I HOPE I DIDN'T PUT THEM TO SLEEP.
I THINK THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, ONE THING AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THIS IS JUST ONE PARTNER, RIGHT.
AND ONE CITY IN OUR REGION, YOU KNOW, I THINK IN PART OF WHAT THE SUMMIT IS ABOUT IS LEARNING ABOUT THESE INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE APPROACHES.
CAUSE THERE WAS A LOT OF CREATIVITY DURING THE PANDEMIC, RIGHT.
THAT HAPPENED OUT OF NECESSITY.
AND SO, UM, AND WE GET TO KEEP THAT RIGHT.
SO, UM, SO FOR ME, IT'S VERY INSPIRING AND JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A PHONE CONVERSATION AND I GOT REAL EXCITED JUST AGAIN, JUST FROM ONE OF OUR PARTNERS.
AND THE EFFORTS THEY MADE WORKING WITH OTHER CANNED PARTNERS RIGHT.
UM, SO I REALLY JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU'RE DOING AND SHARING THE STORY BECAUSE I DO THINK IT, UM, THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT, UH, ARE PROBABLY APPLICABLE RIGHT.
SO THAT'S THE SPIRIT I THINK, OF THE SUMMIT, RIGHT.
IS HOW DO WE KIND OF TAKE SOME OF THESE LEARNINGS AND THEN APPLY THEM ELSEWHERE TO, TO IMPROVE OR ENHANCE IMPACT.
I'M SURE THERE'S MORE QUESTIONS, BUT I D I DID WANT TO MENTION THAT JUST BECAUSE I'M VERY EXCITED TO HAVE YOU ALL HERE AND TO BE A PART OF OUR SUMMIT THIS YEAR IN THE ROLE Y'ALL ARE Y'ALL ARE PLAYING.
I JUST WANTED TO CHIP IN IF I COULD, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT PCDC IS DOING.
UH, WE ARE, WE ARE PLEASED THAT THEY ARE IN PRECINCT ONE.
UH, WHEN YOU LOOK AT, UH, WHERE PFLUGERVILLE IS, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE SECOND LARGEST CITY IN, UH, TRAVIS COUNTY.
AND, UM, AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE POSSIBILITY OF SAMSUNG GROWING IN THAT DIRECTION, LOOK AT THE POSSIBILITY OF TESLA EXPANDING AS WELL.
UH, THE QUESTION BECOMES, HOW DO WE BECOME MORE CONNECTED? AND I THINK, UH, AS, AS WE LOOK THROUGH OUR PROCESSES EARLIER,
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UH, AND WE TALKED ABOUT HOW WE CONNECT WITH THEM, YOU'LL SEE A PICKUP DISTRICT WITH, UH, WITH CAB METRO THAT WILL GO FROM BREAKER ALL THE WAY OUT TO WELLS BRANCH.UH, SO USUALLY WE, WE ARE, WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CONNECTED.
WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE UNDERSTAND, UM, NOT ONLY TRANSIT NEEDS, BUT OTHER ROAD NEEDS, UM, ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE.
AND WE LOOK AT ALL OF THE HEALTHCARE CLINICAL RESOURCES THAT ARE GROWING IN THE PFLUGERVILLE AREA, UH, UH, WITH NO SMALL PART OF THAT BEING, PCDC BRINGING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT, UH, WHAT THEY NEED AND HOW WE CAN WORK IN THIS REGION TO PROVIDE IT.
SO, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO WORK WITH THEM AND TO, UH, CONTINUING TO GROW OUR PRECINCT ONE AS WELL.
SO, UM, SO THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING.
AND, UM, I'M SO HAPPY THAT THEY ARE HERE, UH, WORKING WITH THIS GROUP WHO, WHO DOES AN EXCEPTIONAL JOB OF TRYING TO IDENTIFY RESOURCES THAT OFTEN HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN DENIED DIFFERENT PARTS, UH, TO DIFFERENT PARTS OF THIS COMMUNITY.
AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD, THAT DOESN'T CONTINUE TO HAPPEN.
I WANT TO JUST REALLY EMPHASIZE, UM, THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SEEING THAT DIVERSITY INCLUSION THING COMING THROUGH IN THE SITE SELECTION PROCESS.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AS COMMUNITY.
AND IF WE AREN'T GOING TO TALK ABOUT REGIONAL, I THINK IT WOULD EVEN BE AMAZING FOR US TO HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, A GO-TO DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS SOME OF THE INITIATIVES WE'RE DOING IN DIVERSITY INCLUSION THAT'S AVAILABLE SO THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO IT READILY.
I MEAN, I PULLED TOGETHER SEVERAL RESOURCES, BUT I THINK WORKING WITH CAN, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO A MUCH BETTER JOB OF THAT.
AND I REALLY THINK WE HAVE SO MUCH TO OFFER.
AND IF WE, AND THERE'S SO MANY GREAT PROGRAMS GOING ON THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M SURE YOU'VE HEARD OF ACROSS THE REGION, BUT IF WE COULD JUST COLLECT THEM IN ONE PLACE, WOW, ISN'T THAT POWERFUL.
SO, BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND COMMENTS.
AND I JUST WANT TO KEEP WORKING THAT DIRECTION TO TRY TO STAY REGIONAL IN OUR APPROACH AND CERTAINLY WORK ON REFINING WHAT WE DO WELL AND GETTING BETTER AT THINGS THAT WE DON'T JIMMY, THANK YOU.
UM, THE, THE, THE, THE REGIONAL QUESTION, UH, IS SO CRITICAL BECAUSE NEITHER OF THE BUSINESSES, NOR THE EMPLOYEES UNDERSTAND OUR COMPLICATED JURISDICTIONAL LINES, SO IT'S COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT TO THEM.
SO WE HAVE TO DO BETTER ON OUR SIDE.
UH, AS I THINK ALL OF, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD THAT IS OPERATED THROUGH THE COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS.
I AM STILL THE VICE CHAIR OF THAT BOARD.
I WAS THE CHAIR LAST YEAR OF THAT BOARD.
TAMRA PARTICIPATES IN THAT, ON THAT BOARD, AS WELL AS, UH, AS DOES PAUL, AMY.
UM, AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A, THERE'S ALWAYS, IN MY MIND BEEN A POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP DURING 2020, I WAS THE CHAIR OF BOTH OF THESE BOARDS.
UH, THE PANDEMIC MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO BE CREATIVE BECAUSE WE WERE JUST ALL IN CRISIS MODE, BUT I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT THERE WAS SOME SYNERGY TO BE HAD BETWEEN CAN, WHICH CAN BRING FOR LACK OF A BETTER PHRASE, THE SOCIAL JUSTICE LENS TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE ACTUAL REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD, WHICH HAS STRUGGLED WITH ITS PLACE IN SOCIAL JUSTICE.
UM, AND YOU TALK ABOUT FOLKS PARTICIPATING FROM PLACES LIKE CALDWELL COUNTY, WHERE THEIR DIVERSITY CONVERSATIONS ARE VERY DIFFERENT AND HOW YOU NAVIGATE A LANGUAGE BARRIER ON THESE TOPICS IS AS MUCH OF THE CHALLENGE.
UM, BUT I DO THINK THERE'S A LOT OF POTENTIAL FOR COLLABORATION NOT TO MAKE CAM THE PLACE THAT HAS TO DO IT, BUT CAN, CAN BE THE THING THAT HELPS THE ECON DEV BOARD, THE EXISTING BOARD GET BETTER AT IT.
AND TO THAT END AMIA, I'M WONDERING IF YOU, AND I'M SORRY IF I MISSED THIS PARTICULAR ANSWER IN YOUR PRESENTATION, TO WHAT EXTENT ARE YOU ABLE TO, UM, ON THE WORD JUST POPPED OUT OF MY HEAD, BUT TAKE THE DATA YOU'RE GETTING FROM YOUR WORK AND BREAK IT OUT BY DEMOGRAPHICS.
ARE YOU ABLE TO REALLY MEASURE HOW THE WORK YOU'RE DOING IS IMPACTING DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES IN DIFFERENT WAYS? WOW, THAT'S A LOADED QUESTION.
UM, I THINK THAT IN SOME CASES IT'S YES.
AND ANOTHER CASE IT'S, WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT.
UH, ONE OF THE REASONS WE WANT TO DO THE ASSESSMENT ON MICRO-BUSINESS IS TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY
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WHAT SOME OF THEIR ISSUES ARE.BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT IS TO DETERMINE THE DIVERSITY OF THAT GROUP AND WHAT RESOURCES THEY ARE AVAILING THEMSELVES TO.
I THINK SOMETIMES IT'S EASIER FOR ONE CULTURE THAN ANOTHER TO FIND CERTAIN TYPES OF IMPORTANT RESOURCE AND MAKING SURE THAT WE EQUALIZE THAT PLAYING FIELD, UM, WITH OUR ASSESSMENT THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING, WE'RE HOPING TO PULL DOWN MORE, UH, ETHNICITY AND HAVE SOME STARTING POINT WITH THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE RUN, INCLUDING THE PFLUGERVILLE MANUFACTURING ACADEMY.
ONE OF THE FIRST KEY THINGS I SAID WAS WE MUST KEEP TRACK OF THAT DIVERSITY AS WELL.
AND SO WE ARE DOING THAT, WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH ACC, UM, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE, UH, SOME BREAKOUT OF THOSE THAT ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE, BUT WE HAVE SEEN, UH, DON'T QUOTE ME ON THIS, BUT IT'S APPROXIMATELY 40% OF OUR STUDENTS ARE, UM, ARE, YOU KNOW, DIVERSE.
AND, UH, WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF VARIANCE IN AGE GROUP TOO.
WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF OLDER PEOPLE THAT WERE INTERESTED IN 3D AS WELL AS YOUNG PEOPLE AS WELL.
SO HOPING TO DO BETTER IN THAT, THAT CATEGORY, BUT WE ARE MAKING SOME, UH, SOME HEADWAY AS WELL.
DAVID EVANS, AND JUST A QUICK COMMENT.
AND THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR SUCH A COMPREHENSIVE AND CLEAR PRESENTATION.
UM, I WORK WITH THE LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AGENCY, PUBLIC SERVICES, AND ALSO ONE OF OUR THEMES FOR THE YEAR, UH, IS A FOCUS ON MENTAL HEALTH.
AND WE'VE LOOKED AT AREAS LIKE TOOL KITS FOR EMPLOYERS TO BE ABLE TO CONSIDER EAP PROGRAMS AND, UH, STRESS AND ANXIETY ON RETURN TO WORK.
BUT I ALSO WANT TO MENTION ONE OTHER THING, AND THAT IS THAT FAMILIES WHO MAY BE CONSIDERING MOVING INTO THE AREA ALSO MAY HAVE CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, FAMILY MEMBERS STRUGGLING WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE, UH, OR ONGOING MENTAL HEALTH, UH, THE NEED FOR MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT.
SO, YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THE UPCOMING, UM, UH, CONFERENCE IN THAT ALSO THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, I JUST WANTED TO TIE IN OR JUST MAKE THE LINKAGE TO, AND ALSO OFFER ON AN ONGOING BASIS.
UH, ANY OF THE THINGS WE'VE BEEN LEARNING WITH THE AUSTIN CHAMBER AND WHAT THEY'VE BEEN PUTTING TOGETHER ON A RETURN TO WORK, UH, TOOLKIT.
AND THEN, UM, AS WE'RE LEARNING TOGETHER IN THE, UH, COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT NETWORK WORK THIS NEXT YEAR, UH, AND OFFERED A FORWARD MATERIALS AND IDEAS TO YOU THAT SOME OF WHAT YOU MAY WANT TO EMPLOY, YOU KNOW, I, I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE TO VISIT PRIVATELY WITH THE AMAZON, A NEW OPERATIONS MANAGER IN ADVANCE AND TALKING ABOUT, UM, SOME OF THE INITIATIVES THEY HAVE.
AND ONE OF THOSE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE COMPANY IS VERY FOCUSED ON MENTAL WELLNESS.
AND I THINK FINDING HOW THEY OPERATE AND LOOKING AT WAYS WE CAN INCORPORATE IT IN OTHER INSTITUTIONS LOCALLY AND EVEN SMALL BUSINESS, UH, IS GOING TO BECOME IMPORTANT.
AND SOMETHING THAT WE, AS A COMMUNITY CAN LOOK TO TRY TO CHALLENGE THOSE COMPANIES TO DO.
IT'S NOT JUST THE ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY, BUT I THINK THE BUSINESSES ARE SEEING AN IMPORTANT ROLE ON THAT TOO.
AND THAT'S TRYING TO HELP INFLUENCE THAT AS IMPORTANT.
ONE THING THE NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL HAS BROUGHT IN HERE, THE DELL MEDICAL SCHOOL IS THIS MIND BODY CONNECTION USING THE TERM THAT YOU DID A MENTAL WELLNESS.
AND SO REALLY BEING ABLE TO IN A MORE RESEARCH KIND OF WAY, TIE, EXERCISE, SLEEP NUTRITION, UH, INTO THE IMPACT THAT HAS ON THINGS LIKE, UH, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND AGAIN, A PRODUCTIVE, UH, WORKFORCE.
AND SO I THINK THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WORKING IN THE FIELD AND WITH CLINICIANS, WE'RE OFTEN REFERRING TO THINGS AS IS DIAGNOSABLE MENTAL ILLNESSES OR A BROAD TERM OF MENTAL HEALTH, BUT I'M JUST ALSO PICKING UP ON YOUR TERM MENTAL WELLBEING.
AND OF COURSE, THAT'S RIGHT AT THE HEART OF WHAT WE'RE ALL LOOKING FOR IN TERMS OF, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, MEANINGFUL AND ACTIVE LIFE.
SO THANK YOU AGAIN, THANK YOU.
I WANT TO POINT OUT THE CHAT, JEREMY, THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING THAT RESOURCE FOR US.
UM, SO SHE I'LL JUST ADD MY VOICE TO THANK AMY AND PCBC, UH, AMY, YOU'RE VERY KIND, UH, BUT YOU GUYS REALLY CAME IN
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AND THEN, UH, IT WAS GAME ON AND I APPRECIATE, UH, COMMISSIONER TREVELYAN, UH, AND RUDY AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT REALLY ENCOURAGED US TO WORK TOGETHER.AND I DON'T THINK THEY HAD ANY IDEA WHAT WE WOULD DO ONCE WE GOT STARTED.
THANK YOU FOR THE PARTNERSHIP AND THANK YOU, AMY, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
AND I WOULD JUST, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD MY, THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU FOR BEING HERE.
I'M VERY GRATEFUL AND THINKING ABOUT THESE IDEAS OF LIKE DESEGREGATING DATA AND UNDERSTANDING SORT OF THIS PIPELINE INTO WORK, THIS IDEA OF INCLUSIVE GROWTH IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND ENSURING THAT THE FOLKS WHO ARE HERE ARE ALSO CAPITALIZING ON THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE COMING TO US.
SO THANK YOU FOR, FOR BEING HERE.
THANK YOU FOR WEDDING, OUR APPETITE FOR MORE CONVERSATION ABOUT PFLUGERVILLE AND THE SUCCESSES HAPPENING THERE.
AND THIS IS WHY EVERYONE SHOULD GO TO THE REGIONAL SUMMIT AND BRING EVERY, BRING YOUR FRIENDS TO THE REGIONAL SUMMIT.
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FOR, I WILL, I WILL PASS IT BACK TO YOU AS WE SORT OF, UH, TRANSITION FROM THINKING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE REGIONAL SUMMIT TO OUR PLANNING GOING FORWARD FOR CAMP.THANK YOU, AMY AGAIN, AND EMILY, UH, FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION AND, UM, AND, UM, JUST EXCITING, JUST ALL THE EXCITING WORK YOU'RE DOING IS THIS, UH, IT'S VERY, UH, REASSURING RIGHT IN THESE TIMES, RIGHT.
THAT, UH, FOLKS ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, HAVING THE KIND OF IMPACT Y'ALL ARE ABLE TO.
UM, AND SO THANK YOU FOR THAT AND THANKS FOR, FOR BEING A PART OF THIS CONVERSATION AND LOOK FORWARD TO AGAIN, MAYBE DOCUMENTING SOME OF, SOME OF THE SUCCESSES AND ALSO AS YOU SAY, KIND OF CREATE, UM, IDENTIFY ROLES, RIGHT.
BUT WE CAN FACILITATE JUST THE COMMUNICATION, RIGHT? JUST THE SHARING OF INFORMATION, WHICH IS ONE OF OUR, ONE OF OUR STRENGTHS, WHERE DID WE CREATE THE RIGHT VEHICLE FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE THEN? UM, THAT'S DEFINITELY A ROLE, RIGHT? THAT, THAT WE CAN, AND I, I KNOW WE HAD TALKED ABOUT THAT TAMRA AND, UH, LAWRENCE LYMAN AND I, UH, EARLY ON WHEN WE FIRST STARTED TO SEE WHAT CAN, WHAT CAN ABLE TO DO IN THEIR ARENA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
UM, SO I THINK IT'S STARTING TO REALLY GEL, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF THE POSSIBLE ROLES.
SO THANK YOU FOR THOSE SUGGESTIONS AS WELL.
AND, UM, SO I'M GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A BREAKOUT CONVERSATION IN SMALL GROUP, AND THIS IS KIND OF MORE AS PREP FOR OUR RETREAT, RIGHT? SO THAT WE CAN LESSEN THE TIME WE HAVE TO BE IN THE RETREAT MODE INSTEAD OF FOUR HOURS, MAYBE GET IT DOWN TO THREE.
OR WHEN WE MEET WITH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NEXT WEEK, WE'LL TALK ABOUT AGAIN, JUST HOW MUCH TIME WE NEED, BUT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE LIKE THREE HOURS BLOCKED OFF ON FOR OUR NOVEMBER MEETING OF THE BOARD.
UM, BUT THIS, UH, EARLY DISCUSSION HERE AGAIN, WILL HELP.
I THINK, HONE IN THE TOPICS WE, WE, WE, UH, TAKE ON RIGHT AT THE, AT THE RETREAT.
SO I WANTED TO SHARE, UM, A COUPLE OF THINGS AROUND OUR WORK PLAN, UM, STRAT PLAN AND HOW OUR WORK PLAN SORT, UH, TRY TO OPERATIONALIZE THE, THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
UM, SO I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH IT IN JUST A PAINSTAKING DETAIL.
UH, BUT DIDN'T WANT TO JUST KIND OF REMIND YOU A LITTLE BIT OF SORT OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN, UM, A FEW THINGS THAT I'VE SHARED.
SO I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO THEM, UH, UH, IN TOO MUCH, BUT JUST AS WE GO INTO THESE SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS, KIND OF KEEP IN MIND, SORT OF, THESE ARE THE BIG BUCKETS OF WORK, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE THEY ALL CONNECTED? RIGHT.
I KIND OF KEEP TRYING TO COME UP WITH GRAPHICS TO HELP UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, FOLKS UNDERSTAND HOW, WHAT WE'RE DOING OVER HERE AROUND THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE RELATES TO WORK.
MAY WE MAY BE DOING AROUND MENTAL HEALTH OR HOUSING.
UM, AND SO, SO AGAIN, IT'S LIKE LEARNING FROM THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE, RIGHT? AND FOCUSING ON COMMUNITY HEALING AND MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS, JUST BECAUSE OF THIS COLLECTIVE TRAUMA, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALL EXPERIENCED AND THE FACT THAT IT AFFECTS EVERYONE YOU WORK WITH, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, AND IN YOUR WORKPLACE AND AT HOME AND, AND FAMILY, AND THEN HOW DO ALL THESE THINGS INFORM, RIGHT.
OUR APPROACH TO ENSURING AN EQUITABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY.
UM, SO I DO THINK, YOU KNOW, WE DO WORK IN ALL THREE BUCKETS, UM, AND, UH, AND YOU SEE, IT'S ALL KIND OF POINTING TO THIS, UH, THIS IDEA OR THIS THEME OF ENGINEERING AND EQUITABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY, WHICH I THINK CAN ENCAPSULATE ENCAPSULATE QUITE A BIT.
SO HOPEFULLY YOU SEE IN YOUR ARENA OF EXPERTISE OR WORK, THAT THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY THERE TO ADDRESS, UM, AND CONNECT WITH WHAT YOU DO.
UM, AND AGAIN, THIS IS, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME WE'VE CREATED SOME NEW TOOLS, RIGHT? AND YOU CAN, YOU,
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YOU CAN GO AND LOOK AT THESE POWERPOINTS, YOU KNOW, IN THE, IN THE SHARED DRIVE, UH, WITH THE LINK PROVIDED, BUT IT'S LIKE, AGAIN, WHAT ARE THESE NEW TOOLS WE'VE CREATED, HELP US TO DO? RIGHT.AND SO IT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF MEETING OUR PRIORITIES IN TERMS OF ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITY, UM, SO AGAIN, I'M NOT GONNA, I'M GONNA TALK TOO MUCH ABOUT IT.
I'M GOING TO GET TO ACTUALLY THE WORK PLAN STATUS REPORT, UM, BUT ALSO WANT TO KIND OF DO A LITTLE BIT OF PREPPING FOR THE SMALL GROUP, BUT, UH, UH, IN, IN THE ARENA OF MENTAL HEALTH, WHICH IS ANOTHER ARENA THAT KIND OF EMERGED AS A POSSIBLE AREA ON WHICH, UM, CAN, COULD FOCUS SOME TIME AND ATTENTION.
AND WE ARE WORKING WITH SOME, UH, WITH ONE VOICE AND INTEGRAL CARE AND SOME OF OUR OTHER, UH, OTHER COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS AROUND, UM, MENTAL HEALTH, UM, SUPPORTING MENTAL HEALTH OF NON NONPROFIT EMPLOYEES, OR THE CARING FOR THE CAREGIVERS SORT OF, UH, APPROACH.
AND THAT'S A, UM, A FORUM SCHEDULED IN NOVEMBER AS WELL.
AND WE'RE STILL EXPLORING AGAIN, SUPPORTING BUSINESSES AND SUPPORTING THEIR EMPLOYEES.
AND, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN TALKING WITH, UH, THE GREATER AUSTIN CHAMBER AND OTHER AND OTHER COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS AROUND THAT TO SEE AGAIN, HOW WE, HOW WE MIGHT, UH, UM, MOVE FORWARD WITH SOME DISCUSSIONS AND WORK ON THAT.
AND THEN, UM, WHAT IS THIS ONE, THE LANGUAGE ACCESS AGAIN, JUST TO KIND OF REMIND FOLKS ABOUT SOME OF THE TOOLS WE HAVE, AND WE HAVE DEVELOPED SOME GREAT TOOLS AND WE'RE PLANNING TO SHIFT MORE TOWARDS ENGAGEMENT, RIGHT? WE HAVE THE LANGUAGE ACCESS FUND AND THE WEEKEND ATX WEBSITE, WHICH IS MEANT TO BE AN ENGAGEMENT TOOL.
AND WE HAVE SOME COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MODULES THAT WILL TRANSLATE INTO MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, UM, HELPING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW THEY CAN ACCESS, YOU KNOW, SERVICES BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, LANGUAGE ACCESS HAS COME UP SO MUCH DURING THE PANDEMIC.
SO AGAIN, HOW IS SOME OF THESE TOOLS WE CREATE, HELP US, YOU KNOW, REACH SOME OF THOSE MOST ISOLATED COMMUNITIES.
SO, UM, AND REALLY, AGAIN, AS YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONE WHERE, AGAIN, AS WE IDENTIFY MORE RESOURCES FOR THE LANGUAGE JACKSON'S WORK, WE CAN EXPAND WHAT WE DO, BUT IN THE MEANTIME, IT'S JUST, UH, OUR LANGUAGE ACCESS TEAM AND WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO THROUGH THAT TEAM, UH, THAT WE MOVE FORWARD WITH AT THIS POINT.
UM, JUST, JUST A QUICK QUESTION THERE TO PUT A PIN IN THAT.
UM, HAVE WE CREATED A, UM, AN ASSET MAP OR REPOSITORY FOR, UH, THE TYPES OF GROUPS OR THE GROUPS THAT WE ARE AWARE OF AT TALKED TO EMIT, UM, UH, GM AND HAYES PERIODICALLY.
AND EVERY TIME I TALKED TO HIM, HE MAKES ME AWARE OF THREE GROUPS THAT I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT.
AND I'M WONDERING WHETHER WE HAVE, UH, PUT A SPACE TOGETHER SO THAT WHEN SOMEONE IS AWARE OF SOMETHING, THAT'S NOT ON OUR RADAR, THAT WE HAVE A PLACE TO LIST IT, UM, IDENTIFY IT, MAYBE REACH OUT TO THAT GROUP AND LEARN A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THEM, OR INVITE THEM TO A FORUM LIKE THIS, TO, UM, TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES.
I KNOW THERE'S AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOCIAL WORKERS GROUP AND, AND I, I HADN'T BEEN AWARE OF THEM AND THEY PUT ON A FAMILY CONFERENCE EVERY YEAR, BECOME AWARE OF THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT THEY'RE DOING, AND I'M SURE THAT'S HAPPENING IN A NUMBER OF COMMUNITIES, THE LARGER COMMUNITIES JUST AREN'T AWARE OF.
UH, COMMISSIONER, THANK YOU FOR THAT COMMENT.
I DO THINK I'M IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO SCHEDULE SOME OF THESE CONVERSATIONS WE'VE CREATED.
SOME OF THOSE LINKAGES ARE STARTING TO MAKE SOME OF THOSE CONNECTIONS.
UM, AND I THINK THE GREAT THING IS AS WE DO OUR WORK TO SUPPORT NONPROFITS AND I WORK TO GIVE, PROVIDE TOOLS TO BUSINESSES, THEN AGAIN, A LOT OF THESE RESOURCES CAN BE SHARED RIGHT.
UM, SO THERE'S RESOURCE SHARING THESE, AND THEN THERE'S JUST CONNECTING WITH FOLKS, UM, WHO ARE OUT THERE.
UM, BUT WE HAVE DONE QUITE A BIT OF, OF, UH, OF, UH, ENGAGEMENT WITH, UH, WITH FOLKS WHO ARE IN THIS COMMUNITY COMMUNITY FOLKS WHO ARE WORKING ON IN MENTAL HEALTH AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH IN A VARIETY OF WAYS.
AND I DO THINK THAT'LL, UM, THAT'LL HELP US AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN SUPPORT THOSE AND, AND CONNECT, YOU KNOW, THOSE EFFORTS.
UM, AS, AS WE TYPICALLY TRY TO DO BEFORE WE COMMIT TO DO ANYTHING RIGHT, LET'S, LET'S ASSESS WHERE WE ARE AND, UM, WHAT SEEMS APPROPRIATE GIVING STAFF, YOU KNOW, CANS ROLL IN CANS CAPACITY.
SO, UM, SO WE DEFINITELY, UH, I WOULDN'T SAY WE HAVE ONE YET, BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S, UH, DEFINITELY, UH, THOSE RELATIONSHIPS ARE, ARE, ARE, ARE BEGINNING TO EMERGE.
AND I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA AGAIN, JUST TO, AS YOU SUGGEST IS TO START JUST, UH, DOCUMENTING, RIGHT.
UM, THE VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, I KNOW NORA HAS BEEN TALKING
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A LOT ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOR DIFFERENT RACIAL AND ETHNIC COMMUNITIES.SO I DO THINK THAT'S A, IT'S A GOOD START FOR US TO TRY TO, UH, LIKE YOU SAY, WRITE IT DOWN SOMEWHERE WHERE IT'S NOT JUST IN, IN RELATIVE'S HEAD OR DALENE HIS HEAD OR NOR IS IT RIGHT, BUT IN A WAY THAT'S SHAREABLE.
SO, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT SUGGESTION.
AND AGAIN, UH, THERE'S THESE TWO, TWO DOCUMENTS THAT ARE IN THE SHARED FOLDER AROUND KIND OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT KEN IS DOING.
AND, UM, AND ONE OF THOSE I, I PRESENTED, YOU KNOW, A FEW MONTHS BACK IN AUGUST, UH, AND WHAT I'M CALLING THE WORK PLAN STATUS REPORT IS THE ONE THAT, YOU KNOW, GO THROUGH BRIEFLY, BUT THAT'S MORE KIND OF POINT BY POINT.
YOU KNOW, LET'S LOOK AT OUR WORK PLAN AND WHAT'S BEEN DONE, RIGHT? WHERE ARE WE AT SORT OF A STAND STILL WHERE WE MOSTLY THERE IN TERMS OF MEETING OUR GOALS AND WHERE HAVE WE KIND OF, UH, ACHIEVED, YOU KNOW, THE, THE GOAL THAT WAS SET UP.
AND THEN, AND SO BACK IN AUGUST, I PRESENTED AT THE TIME WHAT I CALL THE WORK PLAN STATUS REPORT, BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY MORE A SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR, UM, CANNED PARTNERS TO ENGAGE.
SO I'VE KIND OF, I'VE KIND OF SHIFTED THE NAMING THERE SO THAT YOU CAN, UH, IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE CLEAR THAT THE TOOLS ARE NOT EXACTLY THE SAME THING, BUT ONE HAS A LOT MORE DETAIL AND CAN HELP AGAIN, UM, THE, THE CAN ACTIVITIES TOOL, THEIR SUMMARY IS MORE ABOUT HOW YOU, SO THAT YOU KNOW, WHO I'M WORKING WITH OR WHO OUR STAFF IS WORKING WITH, YOU KNOW, AND WHERE WE ARE, WHAT ARE SOME MILESTONES THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE? SO, UM, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO GO OVER THAT ONE BECAUSE I DID THAT IN AUGUST, BUT I DO WANT TO SHOW YOU, UM, REMIND YOU KIND OF WHAT THAT LOOKED LIKE.
IF I CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GREEN, IS THERE, IF IT GETS THIS ONE, SO THIS IS THE ONE THAT, WHERE, UH, LAST AUGUST I PRESENTED, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE, WHAT IS GOD DOING AROUND LANGUAGE EXITS, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE WE, WHERE ARE WE IN TERMS OF THE STATUS? WHAT GOALS DOES THIS HELP US ACHIEVE? ARE THE PARTNERS INVOLVED? YOU KNOW, WHAT STAKEHOLDERS ARE INVOLVED AND WHO'S IN THE STAFF, UH, LEAD ON THESE, UH, ON THAT PROJECT.
AND, UH, THERE'S HYPERLINKS IN THIS DOCUMENT AGAIN.
SO YOU CAN, WHENEVER THERE'S A RESOURCE WE CREATED OR IDENTIFIED, YOU CAN CLICK ON THE HYPERLINK AND IT'LL TAKE YOU TO THAT RESOURCE.
SO, SO AGAIN, THIS WAS MEANT MORE AS A WAY OF, YOU KNOW, IF, UH, AS YOU, AS A CAN PARTNER, WANT TO BE ENGAGED AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON AND WHERE YOU MAY OR MAY NOT BE INVOLVED.
SOMETIMES YOU ALL, YOU ALL MAY BE INVOLVED, BUT YOU DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW SOMEBODY FROM YOUR ORGANIZATION IS, IS PARTICIPATING.
SO, UH, SO KEEP THAT INVITE AS A TOOL.
AND IT WOULD, THIS KIND OF DOES INFORM, RIGHT, THOSE SMALL GROUP CONVERSATIONS YOU WILL HAVE.
UM, BUT THIS IS THE NEW TOOL I CREATED, WHICH IS ACTUALLY A TRUE WORK PLAN SORT OF STATUS UPDATE WHERE WE ACTUALLY, UH, I KIND OF WENT THROUGH TO SEE, WELL, WHERE ARE WE WITH THESE SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT WE ADOPTED BACK IN, UM, DECEMBER I BELIEVE, UM, OR MAYBE IT MIGHT'VE BEEN IN, IN, IN FEBRUARY OF, I THINK IT WAS DECEMBER.
SO ANYWAYS, SO I GOT, JUST WENT THROUGH TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF, I DIDN'T WANT TO USE THE SORT OF YELLOW, GREEN, AND RED SORT OF A STOPLIGHT SORT OF THING.
SO I WENT MORE WITH, YOU KNOW, 25, YOU KNOW, WE'RE 25% THERE, 50% THERE, 75% THERE, A HUNDRED PERCENT THERE, UH, OR THE X MEANS IS WE'RE JUST NOT REALLY, HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO FOCUS, UM, ON THIS.
UM, AND SO IT KIND OF, AGAIN, IT'S A DASHBOARD OF SORTS, RIGHT? SO YOU CAN KIND OF LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHERE HAVE WE, UM, NOT HAD THE CAPACITY TO, TO MOVE FORWARD AND WHERE ARE WE JUST INITIATING THINGS AND WHERE HAVE WE BEEN ABLE TO DELIVER ON THAT PARTICULAR ACTION ITEM? AND SO THERE'S, THIS, THESE ARE, I GUESS, THE PROVERBIAL JUGGLING A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF BALLS IN THE AIR, RIGHT? SO THESE ARE ALL THE BALLS IN THE AIR AND WE TRY TO, UM, SORT OF, UH, KEEP THEM IN THE AIR AND MOVING WHILE RESPONDING TO A PANDEMIC.
SO, UM, SO AGAIN, YOU CAN GO THROUGH AND JUST KIND OF LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SOMETHING I'LL SHARE WITH THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, AS, AS WE ASSESS THE LAST YEAR OF WORK THAT WE'VE DONE, BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW THERE'S THIS ONE THING THAT KIND OF STANDS OUT BECAUSE OF THE COLOR RIGHT HERE SINCE SO MUCH OF WHAT WE'VE DONE DURING THE PANDEMIC IS SORT OF SUPPORT AND ENGAGE IN COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS TO ADDRESS THE PANDEMIC IS THAT WHEN YOU SEE AN ITEM THAT'S, YOU KNOW, AT 25% OR 50% OR NOT QUITE MOVING, A LOT OF IT IS JUST THAT SO MUCH OF OUR ATTENTION HAS BEEN ON THIS COLLABORATIVE SUPPORTING COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS.
IT'S AROUND THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT LIMITS AGAIN, THE CAPACITY, SINCE WE'RE SUCH A SMALL OPERATION, UH, TO BE ABLE TO KIND OF DEVOTE TO ALL THESE OTHER THINGS.
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I THINK WE'VE MADE GRADUAL PROGRESS ON MOST OF THEM.UM, BUT YOU KNOW, THAT THIS PARTICULAR ORANGE BOX IS ONE REFERS TO THAT.
THE OTHER DOCUMENT, THAT SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES DOCUMENT THAT I DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO OVER, BUT THAT HAS A LOT OF THAT DETAIL ABOUT WHAT COLLABORATIONS ARE WE INVOLVED IN? YOU KNOW, WHO, WHAT STAKEHOLDERS ARE PARTICIPATING WITH, KEN PARTNERS ARE PARTICIPATING.
AND I DID WANT TO JUST KNOW WHY THAT'S KIND OF A STAR AND IN A DIFFERENT COLOR, BUT, UM, BUT IT'S, AGAIN, IT JUST, UM, AND I GUESS I DIDN'T EXPLAIN WHAT MY, UM, MY TERMINOLOGY WAS, UH, WHEN I SHARED MY POWERPOINT.
BUT ONE WAS MORE LIKE, IT'S MORE OF A CHECKLIST, RIGHT? LET'S JUST LOOK AT OUR WORK PLAN.
HAVE WE, AGAIN, HOW HA HOW ARE WE DOING IN TERMS OF THE SPECIFIC ACTIONS ADOPTED? AND THEN THE OTHER ONE IS MORE, THIS IS THE ACTUAL WORK WE'RE DOING, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, WHAT, WHAT THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE TO ENGAGE FOR OUR CANNED PARTNERS.
AND SO IT'S TWO SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THINGS, RIGHT? AND ONE IS MORE AROUND ENGAGEMENT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO BETTER ENGAGE AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY OF BEING PART OF THIS NETWORK, YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THAT BLUE CHART VERSUS, UM, THIS IS MORE OF AN NDV OR SUMMARY, RIGHT? THE WORK PLAN, STATUS UPDATES.
SO IT WAS KIND OF FUN TO DO IT, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S ALWAYS, UH, UH, WHEN YOU CREATE A NEW MONITORING TOOL, RIGHT, IT'S KIND OF, UH, IT TAKES A WHILE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE RIGHT WAY TO PRESENT THE INFORMATION IS.
BUT I DO THINK IT GAVE ME A LOT OF INSIGHTS INTO WHAT HAS BEEN DONE AND WE'RE STILL WORKING ON AND, UM, I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT.
AND ANY QUESTIONS I THINK BEFORE WE, WE MIGHT JUST END UP DOING TWO GROUPS, RIGHT.
INSTEAD OF A STATE OF THREE, BUT ANY QUESTIONS JUST ABOUT THE USER, EITHER TOOL, YOU KNOW, I KNOW IT'S, UH, A LOT TO DIGEST, BUT HOPEFULLY AGAIN, THE KIND OF DASHBOARD APPROACH KIND OF HELPS YOU, I THINK, TO UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE WITH THE WORK PLAN.
AND I DO THINK THAT'S A, IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT TOOL FOR US GOING FORWARD.
BEING ABLE TO COMMUNICATE THAT TO THE BOARD QUESTIONS FOR A WHILE.
I THINK THAT WE WILL BE, I MEAN, THANK YOU FOR THAT BACKGROUND.
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF WHAT KANT STAFF HAS BEEN ABLE TO, TO MAKE HAPPEN IN THE LAST YEAR AS WELL.
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BUT I THINK THAT THAT IS GOING TO BE THE BASIS, WHAT YOU'VE JUST PRESENTED, UH, OF OUR, OF OUR GROUP DISCUSSION NOW.RO WELL, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO JALINA IS GOING TO DROP A COUPLE OF PROMPTS THERE FOR US TO CONSIDER IN SMALL GROUP.
AND THEN, UM, UM, BUT THERE'S HOPEFULLY, AGAIN, SOME OF THIS BACKGROUND OF THE WORK, WHAT WE'RE DOING AND WHY WE'RE DOING IT, YOU KNOW, AND, AND WHAT THE STATUS IS THAT SOME OF THESE, UH, IDENTIFIED, UM, PRIORITIES OR ACTIONS WILL HELP WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, THE DISCUSSIONS.
SO I THINK, UH, I THINK THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT PROMPTS AND I DO, AND I'D SAY, YEAH, THEY'RE BOTH ON THERE, BUT IN DIFFERENT SORT OF CHAT ENTRIES.
SO SHOULD WE JUST DO TWO SUCHI? I THINK IT'S, UM, YOU OR I WAS EVEN GOING TO SAY, FOLKS WANT TO STAY IN THIS MAIN ROOM.
I THINK WE COULD PROBABLY TALK THROUGH IT THIS SMALL IN THIS SMALLER GROUP.
NOW, TAMARA, I SEE A THING THUMBS UP.
IF, IF THAT WOULD BE GOOD, THEN WE CAN SAY GIVEN THE SIZE OF THE GROUP AND THE TIME THAT WE HAVE LEFT.
UM, SO WE'LL, I AM, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS SAY I'M AN, I'M A NATURAL INTROVERT, SO I NEED SOME TIME TO READ AND THINK.
SO I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU GUYS SOME TIME TO READ AND THINK, DOES ANYBODY NEED ME TO READ THE FIRST OF THESE PROMPTS OUT LOUD? ALRIGHTY.
SO, SO YOU CAN PROCESS, UH, BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THE FIRST QUESTION IS JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT OUR PRIORITIES, RIGHT.
CURRENTLY SORT OF WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.
AND, UM, SO WE HAVE ADDRESSING INSTITUTIONAL RACISM.
WHAT HAVE WE DONE AROUND RACIAL EQUITY, IMPROVING LANGUAGE ACCESS, YOU KNOW, UH, AND ENGAGING WITH THESE LIGHT LANGUAGE, ISOLATED COMMUNITIES, ADDRESSING, UH, COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS.
AND, AND, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THE NEWEST, NEWEST ONE IS KIND OF THIS SHIFT TO ENSURING AN EQUITABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY.
RIGHT? SO, SO THE FIRST QUESTION IS, AGAIN, THIS IS TO INFORM OUR CONVERSATION AT THE RETREAT, RIGHT.
OR STRUCTURE IT IN A WAY IS, DO YOU AGREE THAT IF THESE FOUR ARENAS ARE, UM, ARE WORTH CONTINUING RIGHT.
AND, UH, IN 2022, UM, AND OR IS SOMETHING MISSING, I GUESS MAYBE THAT'S A UP TO THAT, WHAT'S, WHAT'S A BIG THING THAT'S MISSING, JUST GIVEN ALL THE CONVERSATIONS WE'VE HAD OVER THE LAST, YOU KNOW, YEAR DURING THE PANDEMIC.
UM, AND THEN THE SECOND QUESTION, RIGHT? IT KIND OF BUILDS ON THAT, BUT I FIGURED THAT, UH, WE CAN TALK ABOUT THESE AS PRIORITIES GOING FORWARD.
ARE THESE THE RIGHT PRIORITIES, GIVEN THE CHALLENGES AND THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE HAVE AS A COMMUNITY? SO RO
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YOU KNOW, UM, FOR ME, UH, WHAT I ULTIMATELY WANT TO GET FROM THE PANDEMIC IS AN AFTER ACTION REPORT.SO, UM, MAYBE THE STYLE OF THE QUESTION MIGHT BE, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, WHAT DID WE BECOME AWARE OF DURING THE PANDEMIC THAT WE WERE UNAWARE OF BEFORE, WHO IS PROVIDING RESOURCES? WHERE ARE THOSE RESOURCES BEING PROVIDED HISTORICALLY? UM, YOU KNOW, WE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT AT THE COUNTY, BUT IN OTHER PLACES, WHEN YOU HAVE A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY, WE ALWAYS COMPETE PROGRAMS AGAINST EACH OTHER.
AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO THINK ABOUT AND MOVE TOWARDS IS IDENTIFY THOSE GROUPS THAT ARE PROVIDING, UH, RESOURCES AND PROVIDING, UH, REMEDIES WHEREVER THEY ARE.
IF SOMEBODY MIGHT BE DOING SOMETHING WONDERFUL IN 7, 8, 7, 2, 4, WELL, WE NEEDED IN 7, 8, 6, 6, 0 AS WELL.
SO WHAT DID WE LEARN ABOUT WHERE IS IT, WHAT GAPS DID WE FIND, WHERE DO WE HAVE RESOURCES AND THEN WHERE OTHER PLACES THAT THESE RESOURCES MIGHT BE VIABLE.
SO, SO THAT RATHER THAN SAYING, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT DOING SOMETHING OR YOU'RE NOT WHERE I WANT YOU TO BE, WE'RE IDENTIFYING, WHO'S DOING WHAT WHEREVER THEY ARE, AND MAKING SURE THAT THE WHOLE GROUP KNOWS ABOUT WHAT THEY DO.
JUST WHAT DID WE LEARN? WHAT IS AVAILABLE THAT WE FOUND OUT ABOUT DURING THE PANDEMIC, UM, AND WHAT'S AVAILABLE AND HOW DO WE PUT THAT ON A MAP SOMEWHERE SO THAT SOMEONE CLOSE CAN KNOW WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND HOW WE ACCESS THEM.
I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT COMMISSIONER.
AND I WOULD ADD TO THAT ROLE, I THINK WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS THAT CAN REALLY, UM, STEPPED IN WHERE NEEDED THROUGH THIS, ESPECIALLY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PANDEMIC.
AND SO IN SOME WAYS, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE SORT OF TALKING AT THE BEGINNING, THINKING ABOUT, UM, CAN AS THE DASHBOARD OR CAN AS AN ACCOUNTABILITY ORGANIZATION, RIGHT.
UM, WE SORT OF TRANSCENDED THAT WITH SOME OF THE PROGRAMMING AROUND INSTITUTIONAL RACISM, AROUND LANGUAGE ACCESS AND THAT SORT OF THING.
SO I WOULD BE INTERESTED ALSO IN, UH, BEYOND WHAT THE COMMISSIONER IS ASKING FOR THAT THE IDEA OF DOING, UM, SOME REPORTING ON WHERE CAN SORT OF, UH, FILL THE GAP OR FILL THE NEED, UH, THAT, THAT, UH, NEED OF, UH, MAYBE CONNECTION CONNECTING OR NETWORKING DURING THIS, THIS CRITICAL TIME AS WELL.
SO, UM, I THINK IT GETS, IT'S BASICALLY TAKING MY KIND OF SUMMARY OF KEN ACTIVITIES AND KIND OF PUTTING IT IN NARRATIVE FORM.
UM, UM, SO I DO THINK THAT'S, THAT'S A EASY ENOUGH KIND OF FOR US TO DO.
AND, AND AGAIN, JUST THE LEARNINGS FROM THAT COLLABORATIVE WORK.
CAUSE, YOU KNOW, IN ADDITION TO WHATEVER, WE MIGHT'VE SUPPORTED THERE, OTHER FOLKS DOING INCREDIBLE WORK, RIGHT.
THEN WE MIGHT ALSO WANT TO, UM, MAP OUT CAUSE, UM, I DO THINK, UM, THERE'S SOME VERY IMPRESSIVE THINGS THAT HAPPEN RIGHT.
IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY RESPONSE, OBVIOUSLY, OF PROVIDERS, WHETHER THEY BE GOVERNMENT AND NONPROFITS.
SO, UM, I DO THINK THAT THAT'S, UM, SOMETHING WE COULD DO.
UM, AND AGAIN, AS A, AS A WORK IN PROGRESS, RIGHT.
I MEAN, CAUSE YOU KNOW, IT'S ALMOST LIKE THE RACE EQUITY ACTION FRAMEWORK AS YOU LEARN MORE WHERE YOU CAN ADD TO IT, BUT YOU GOT TO GET STARTED WITH MAPPING IT OUT OR ELSE, UM, IT NEVER GETS DONE.
SO, UH, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
AND UM, I THINK WE CAN DEFINITELY GET THE BALL ROLLING AND HAVE SOMETHING.
UM, AGAIN THAT JUST BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE AND AGAIN, I ALWAYS LIKE OPPORTUNITIES TO TAKE WHAT'S IN MY HEAD AND THE HEAD OF OUR CANNED STAFF AND PUT IT ON PAPER.
CAUSE AGAIN, THEN IT CAN BE SHARED AND, AND OTHER PEOPLE CAN LEARN FROM OUR EXPERIENCE.
IT'S JUST A, IT'S ALWAYS HARD TO KNOW WHAT OF ALL THAT WE'VE LEARNED SHOULD BE SHARED AND, AND WHAT'S, AND IN WHAT FORMAT, SHERRY, I SEE YOUR HAND UP.
I, UM, I AM HAPPY TO SEE US CONTINUE WITH THESE PRIORITY AREAS, BUT I THINK WE MAY WANT TO, UM, SORT OF REALIGN WHAT WE MEAN BY THEM.
UM, I THINK WORDS MATTER AND I THINK OUR COMMON DEFINITION MATTERS.
AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE TALK A LOT ABOUT ACCESS AND UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE SORT OF ROGUE EXAMPLE I'LL USE IS WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
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ACCESS, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ACCESS FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE ACCESS ALL THE TIME AND THAT WE HAVE A MANAGED TO GET THEM ACCESS? ARE WE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS BECAUSE THEIR POWER WAS OUT AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY OTHERWISE HAVE RESOURCES AND ACCESS.AND I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE SOME OF THE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS THAT WE FIND OURSELVES HAPPENING HAVING IN OUR COMMUNITIES, RIGHT.
BECAUSE WHEN EVERYBODY DOESN'T HAVE POWER, THEN YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE PLAN FOR THAT.
AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, WE ARE ALSO FACED WITH INDIVIDUALS THAT WE KNOW, UM, HAVE CHALLENGES WHEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SUNNY DAY, LIKE IT IS TODAY.
AND SO I THINK OUR, UM, RESPONSIBILITY AS CAN PARTNERS IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE AGREE ON WHAT, WHAT IT IS.
WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY SOME OF THESE THINGS AND, AND EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THEM FOR A WHILE, UH, WE'VE BEEN THROUGH, UH, WE, I, I WANT TO USE PAST TENSE, BUT I, I, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
AND SO, UM, I THINK WE SHOULD REVISIT WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY THESE THINGS.
ARE THESE THE FOUR PRIORITY AREAS? AND, UM, AND IF SO, WHAT DO WE NEED TO ADDRESS TO MOVE THEM FORWARD? YEAH, I GUESS THE FOLLOWUP TO THAT ARE THESE, THE RIGHT THINGS, RIGHT.
IS SORT OF HOW, IF, IF, IF THESE ARE AREAS IMPORTANT TO YOU ORGANIZATION, WHETHER IT BE RIGHT SICKLY OR LANGUAGE ACCESS OR ENSURING MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS OR ENSURING EQUITABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY IS SORT OF, HOW CAN WE GET YOU MORE ENGAGED RIGHT.
IN THAT WORK AND SUPPORTING, YOU KNOW, WITH THE TOOLS WE'VE IDENTIFIED AND CREATIVE, MAKE SURE THAT YOUR ORGANIZATION IS, YOU KNOW, IS UTILIZING THOSE, THOSE RESOURCES.
AND THEN ALSO, UH, WHO SHOULD WE BRING IN, IN THIS CONVERSATION THAT MAYBE ISN'T CURRENTLY IN THE CONVERSATION? THAT'S THE PINPOINT FOR ME? THE FIRST THING I WANT TO KNOW IS WHAT'S GOING ON AND WHERE IT'S GOING ON.
BUT THE NEXT THING I WANT TO KNOW IS, UH, WHERE ARE THE BEST PRACTICES? WHERE, WHERE IS SOMEBODY DEFINING THE STEPS THAT WE OUGHT TO TAKE TO ADDRESS THAT IF IT IS AN ISSUE AND WE ALL AGREE THAT IT'S A PRIMARY ISSUE, SO WHO'S DOING THE BEST WORK IN THAT AREA, WHETHER THAT WORK IS, YOU KNOW, UH, SOMEWHERE ELSE OR RIGHT HERE WITH US, OR, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT IS OUR, WHAT IS OUR CRITERIA FOR, UH, EFFECTIVENESS AND SUCCESS? AND THEN DO WE MAKE SURE THAT AS THAT IS OPERATIONALIZED, THAT OTHER CHAIR MADE A REALLY CRITICAL POINT.
IT IT'S, YOU KNOW, ON A DAY WHEN THE POWER IS OUT, WE WERE ALL SIMILARLY SITUATED, BUT, UH, WHO'S HAVING CHALLENGES EVERY DAY AND WHAT ARE WE DOING? UH, WHAT ARE WE PUTTING IN PLACE TO ADDRESS THOSE CHALLENGES? I'M NOT OFFICIALLY REPRESENTING THE COUNCIL, SO I CAN'T SPEAK FOR THEM, BUT I BELIEVE THAT THESE ISSUES ARE, UH, CONSISTENT WITH THE INTEREST IN THE WORK OF THE COUNCIL IN PAST YEARS, THIS YEAR AND LIKELY GOING FORWARD.
SO I THINK THERE'S CONTINUED INTEREST IN THESE TOPICS AND THEY FIT WITHIN OUR PERSON CENTERED CARE FRAMEWORK.
UM, AND I, I'M JUST, I WOULD JUST ADD THAT AS WE'RE ADDRESSING THESE, IF WE KEEP THAT FRAMEWORK IN MIND AND A FOCUS OF THAT IS THAT WE PRIORITIZE CHILDREN AND YOUTH.
SO I WOULD JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A VERY STRONG CHILDREN AND YOUTH FOCUS IN THESE AREAS.
AND THEN THE FINAL SUGGESTION.
UM, AND THIS IS OBVIOUS, I THINK TO ALL OF US, BUT WHEN YOU SEE ALL, ALL OF THEM TOGETHER ON THE PAGE IS, IS THE INTERRELATEDNESS BETWEEN THESE FOUR TOPICS.
UM, AND MANY OF THESE THINGS NEED TO MOVE IN TANDEM.
SOME OF THEM ARE ANTECEDENTS OR DEPENDENCIES OF OTHERS.
AND SO I WOULD JUST SUGGEST THAT WHATEVER WE DO INDIVIDUALLY, THAT WE COLLECTIVELY THINK ABOUT HOW THESE ISSUES INTERRELATE AND THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE SEQUENCING, YOU KNOW, FIRST THINGS FIRST, UM, AND HOW WE CAN, WE CAN, UH, ENGAGE IN MUTUALLY REINFORCING ACTIVITIES TO USE A COLLECTIVE IMPACT FOR FRAME TO, TO PUT ALL THESE THINGS TOGETHER INTO A COHERENT WHOLE, THANK YOU, LARA.
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ONE QUICK THING, I DO THINK THAT, UH, THAT WE NEED TO HAVE CHILDREN AS, AS ONE OF OUR PRIMARY FOLK, UH, FULL CHI, IF YOU WILL.UH, BUT I ALSO LEARNED DURING THE PANDEMIC, UH, THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT NEED HELP AND WE HAVE LOST CONTACT WITH IS OUR ELDERLY FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN DISPLACED BECAUSE OF FINANCIAL CAPACITY, UH, FOLKS WHO MAY HAVE WORKED FOR 38 YEARS, BUT THEY NEVER MADE OVER $50,000.
AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT THEIR PENSION LOOKS LIKE, IT'S ONLY THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY.
AND, UH, THOSE ARE THE FOLKS THAT ARE WORRIED ABOUT IN ADDITION TO HOW DO WE COOPERATE WITH CHURCHES, FOR EXAMPLE, TO UNDERSTAND THEY'RE SICK AND SHUT IN LIST.
HOW DO WE, YOU KNOW, I DO THINK THAT CHILDREN NEED TO BE A FUNDAMENTAL FOCUS.
I DO, BUT I THINK THAT OUR DISPLACED ELDERLY NEED TO ALSO BE A FUNDAMENTAL FOCUS.
I, I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT, THAT, THAT Y'ALL ARE SAYING, UM, JUST TO KIND OF MAYBE AS A BRAINSTORMING POINT, THE, THAT FOURTH BULLET POINT ABOUT ENSURING AN EQUITABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY SEEMS A LITTLE DATED AND CHALLENGING SINCE WE DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL EVER COME OUT OF A PANDEMIC OR IF WE'RE LIVING PERMANENTLY IN BOOSTER SHOTS OR WHAT HAVE YOU.
UM, AND I THINK THAT MAY BE A PLACE TO, TO MAYBE A LITTLE, BE A LITTLE MORE EXPANSIVE ABOUT EQUITABLE ECONOMIC REALITIES.
AND THAT WOULD INCLUDE SENIORS.
THAT WOULD JUST BE THE PLACE WHERE WE'RE ENSURING PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS TO THE THINGS THAT THEY NEED, THE PHYSICAL THINGS, THEY NEED, FOOD SHELTER, UM, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS WHERE THE OTHER ONES I THINK ARE STILL COMPLIMENTARY TO THAT.
AND EARLY ON, WILL YOU SET AND THEN COMMISSIONER YOU, YOU, UM, EXPANDED ON, IN A GREAT WAY, THE ROLE OF CAN NOT TO DO THIS WORK, BUT TO SUPPORT OUR CONSTITUENT MEMBERS IN DOING THE WORK BETTER.
AND IF THERE'S A PIECE OF THAT, THAT SPEAKS TO THE COMMISSIONER'S ASSET MAP CONCEPT, WHERE WE HAVE OUR PARTNERS AT THE TABLE, WHICH ONE MIGHT ARGUE REACH AN INSTITUTIONAL SCALE THAT'S WHO GETS AT THE TABLE, THEY'VE REACHED AN INSTITUTIONAL SCALE.
HOW DO WE HAVE INPUT FOR THE LESS THAN INSTITUTIONAL SCALE PROVIDERS OF A VARIETY OF, OF DIFFERENT THINGS AND FIND WAYS TO SUPPORT THEM, EVEN IF THAT SUPPORT IS HELPING OUR PARTNERS SUPPORT THEM, IT'S LIKE TIERED DOWN.
SO THAT, THAT I THINK IS AN INTERESTING CONVERSATION FOR A RETREAT.
I, I AGREE WITH THAT AND I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN SAID.
UM, WE ALL KNOCKED ON WITH THOUGH, JIMMY, WHEN YOU SAID, ARE WE GOING TO COME OUT OF THIS PANDEMIC? SO, ALL RIGHT.
UH, BUT WHAT I WILL ALSO ADD TO THAT IS, UM, LET'S PLEASE NOT LOSE THE, UM, INCREASED ALIGNMENT WITH THE CAMP COMMUNITY COUNCILS WORK AS WELL.
I THINK THAT THEY ARE SUCH A GREAT RESOURCE TO SORT OF KEEP, UM, OUR EYES ON THE HORIZON TOO.
AND IN THINKING THIS JUST CAME UP FOR ME WHEN JIMMY SAID THAT SEEMS DATED.
AND I THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, AS CAN, WE NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON IS ENSURING THAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE ACTUALLY THE PRIORITIES IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WON'T BE ABLE TO CHANGE OUR DIRECTION.
MID-YEAR REVEL, NOBODY'S ASKING FOR THAT.
NOBODY WOULD EVER ASK FOR THAT, BUT TO BE SORT OF AWARE AND NIMBLE AS WE, UM, AS WE HAVE ACCESS TO THAT WONDERFUL RESOURCE.
AND I GUESS ONE THING I WOULD POINT OUT AGAIN, AND THEN IT GETS BACK TO, I THINK SOMETHING EITHER COMMISSIONER TREVELYAN OR, OR, OR JIMMY SAID AS ABOUT, UM, KIND OF WHERE ARE WE RIGHT IN THESE BIG BUCKETS, WHETHER IT'S INSTITUTIONAL RACISM OR LIKE WHAT JACK SAYS, RIGHT.
BECAUSE OUR ROLE HAS REALLY FOCUSED ON A SMALL NUMBER OF SMALLER NUMBER OF THINGS.
UM, WHICH AGAIN, THEN ALLOWS FOR THIS FOCUS ON THINGS THAT ARE MORE RELATED TO THE PANDEMIC AND RECOVERY AND OVERLAP RIGHT.
WITH WHAT WE'VE DONE, YOU KNOW, AND THESE OTHER ISSUES.
SO, UH, I DO THINK THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, I HAVE THOSE SUMMARIES, RIGHT.
AND WE CAN MAKE SURE TO SHARE THOSE AHEAD OF TIME BEFORE I RETREAT.
SO PEOPLE WILL SEE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ADDRESSING SORT OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM, IT'S, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE WE SUPPORTING THE CENTRAL TEXAS COLLECTIVE FOR RACIAL EQUITY? RIGHT.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE IN PARTNERSHIP CAN WITH 15 OTHER GROUPS WHERE I CREATED THIS COLLECTIVE, AND NOW WE'RE
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IN A SUPPORT MODE, RIGHT.SO WE'RE NOT OWNING IT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE FACILITATING A LOT OF IT AS WE WERE BEFORE.
SO I THINK THAT'S IN AN IDEAL WORLD, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, THINGS MATURE AND GRADUATE.
SO THAT, AGAIN, THE, THE, THE SUPPORT FROM KEN ISN'T AS, AS, AS HIGH RIGHT.
GOING FORWARD, AND WE CAN FOCUS ON THESE OTHER EMERGING ISSUES.
SO I THINK YOU'RE, YOU'RE CORRECT THAT SUMMARIZING WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT WE MEAN BY CONTINUING TO FOCUS ON THESE, YOU KNOW, IS, IS VERY IMPORTANT.
KIND OF WHERE THAT, ANY OTHER THOUGHTS ROLE DOES THIS PROVIDE US AND TAMRA, JIMMY, DOES THIS PROVIDE US A LITTLE BIT OF INSIGHT DIRECTION FOR THIRD TREE AS WE GO FORWARD? I WOULD INVITE ANYBODY ELSE TO, UM, TO, TO, TO OFFER SOME INSIGHT.
D DAVID, DO YOU, I MEAN, I KNOW THIS IS ONE OF THOSE IS ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING THAT YOU, YOU FEEL STRONGLY THAT WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD ON.
I AGREE WITH THE POINT MADE EARLIER ON THE INTERRELATED, UM, NATURE.
AND SO TO ADDRESS COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS COMING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC, UM, PART AND PARCEL NEEDS TO ADDRESS INSTITUTIONAL RACISM.
SO THIS IDEA OF, UM, EXPANDING SERVICES AND, UM, HIGH BRED SERVICES, UM, THE IDEA OF FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH AND THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL IS GOING TO HEAR ABOUT, UH, EXPANDED CONSULTATION FROM THE MED SCHOOL TO PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS.
AND TO ALSO OFFER IT TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, A FREE THREE SESSION, UM, CHAT WITH A PSYCHIATRIST, IT'S AN AMAZING RESOURCE.
AND THEN I DON'T WANT TO OVERPLAY THIS.
I DON'T HAVE A DEEP, UM, CONTINUOUS UNDERSTANDING, BUT THROUGH A LOCAL ORGANIZATION, UH, TALK TO SOME PARENTS.
AND, UM, THEY MENTIONED AS PART OF THEIR CONCERN IN THEIR OWN AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILY, BEING A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT GETTING ONTO A CHAT WITH A PSYCHIATRIST AND MAYBE BEING PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS THAT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PROCESS WOULD BE FOR HAVING AN, A, FOR A CONTINUOUS DIALOGUE, OR IF IT'S ONLY A THREE SESSION CONSULTATION, WHAT WOULD THAT MEAN GOING FORWARD AND ESPECIALLY ANY LABELING AND STIGMA.
BUT I WAS PARTICULARLY, UM, IMPRESSED WITH THE CLARITY AT WHICH SOME FAMILY MEMBERS WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS ALSO AS A RACE ISSUE AND WITHIN, YOU KNOW, WITHIN WHAT, HOW THIS IMPACTS THEIR FAMILY.
SO AGAIN, I'M NOT TRYING TO OVERPLAY THAT.
I'M JUST BRINGING IT UP, JUST THE KIND OF, UH, ISSUE.
AND THEN IN TERMS OF THERE BEING SOME TYPE OF, UH, EMPHASIS ON, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, KEEPING SOME, SOME TYPE OF AN ASSET MAP.
AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, JIMMY INCLUDED THE CHALLENGE OF OUR, UM, AFFILIATE OR LARGER ORGANIZATIONS AND ALL THE AFFILIATE, UH, LOCAL AND SMALLER GROUPS, UM, COMMISSIONER TREVELYAN, YOU'VE MET WITH US BEFORE IN A AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CONFERENCE.
AND, UH, WE'VE HAD, YOU KNOW, 30 OR 40 ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING IN THAT, BUT I'M CHALLENGED AS I LISTENED TO YOU AND NOT DOING A GOOD JOB OR PAYING ATTENTION TO HOW TO LINK THAT FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY GRASSROOTS, UH, ORGANIZATIONS INTO OUR LARGER CAN, UH, INITIATIVES.
AND I LISTENED TO THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT, UM, PUBLIC INPUT ON, UM, THE EMPHASIS ON, UM, ARPA MONEY AND HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS ISSUES, AND ALMOST CALL AFTER CALL.
AND A NUMBER OF THESE ARE MENTAL HEALTH GROUPS OFFERING THEIR ENGAGEMENT AND SUPPORT AS PART OF THAT SOLUTION.
SO I'M RAMBLING A LITTLE BIT, BUT I KIND OF BROUGHT THIS UP AS KIND OF A, UM, YOU KNOW, GOING FORWARD, NOT JUST WHAT THE LARGER ORGANIZATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS OR CENTRAL HEALTH OR THE CITY, THE COUNTY INTEGRAL CARE, BUT HOW ALSO WE'RE ROWING IN THE SAME DIRECTION WITH, UH, IMPORTANT IN, UM, IMPACTFUL COMMUNITY GROUPS.
I DON'T KNOW IF I'M SAYING IT WELL, BUT I'M TRYING TO PICK UP A FEW COMMENTS AND REFLECTED BACK.
I MIGHT SUFFER FROM BEING THAT TO HERE IN ONE, SAY SOMETHING EVERY TIME SOMEBODY TALKS, BUT I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU SAID.
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ME, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE IS UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGE, BEING ABLE TO DEFINE, UH, A, UH, DEFINE THE PROBLEM.I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN SOLVE PROBLEMS THAT WE CANNOT DEFINE, BUT WHEN WE DEFINE THE PROBLEM, HOW DO WE THEN BUILD A TRAINING PIPELINE, UH, TO THE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE MOST IMPACTED SO THAT WE PRODUCE A GROUP OF TRUSTED COMMUNITY PRACTITIONERS AFTER WE IDENTIFY WHAT THE PROBLEM IS, AS, AS WE DEFINE WHAT THE PROBLEM IS, HOW DO WE THEN PUT TOGETHER SOME TYPE OF CURRICULUM OR SOME TYPE OF PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS SOME OF THE MOST IMPACTED PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SOLUTION, UH, AS PARTICULARLY AS IT RELATES TO THEIR COMMUNITY, BECAUSE UNTIL WE CHANGE THE FACE OF THE PEOPLE SEEKING THE SOLVE, THE PROBLEM, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE ACTUALLY GET THE OUTCOMES THAT WE WANT USE AS AN EXAMPLE, UH, WHEN, UH, WHEN THE PUBLIC EDUCATION PLAN THAT I THINK WAS MOST EFFECTIVE IN A PUBLIC HEALTH SETTING WAS WHEN, UH, WHEN THE INDUSTRY STARTED SPEAKING TO CHILDREN ABOUT THE, UH, HEALTH PROBLEMS THAT CIGARETTES COSTS.
SO ALL OF A SUDDEN FIVE-YEAR-OLDS WERE GOING HOME AND SAID, MOMMY AND DADDY, WHY ARE YOU SMOKING? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT DOES TO YOUR LUNGS OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, UH, YOU NEED TO SPEND, AND SOME OF THOSE CHILDREN WENT ON TO BECOME NURSES AND PHARMACISTS AND DOCTORS AND OTHER TYPES OF PRACTITIONERS.
WHAT ARE WE DOING INCLUDE COMMUNITIES IN AND BUILDING A PIPELINE TO HELP SOLVE PROBLEMS IN AN AREA WHERE THEIR MOST TRUSTED, ALL RIGHT,
[Report Out from Small Group Breakouts & Discussion]
I THINK THIS, THIS GETS US ON OUR WAY, THINKING ABOUT THIS RETREAT AND GIVES US, UM, IS CERTAINLY THE EXECUTIVE TEAM, SOME, SOME DATA TO SORT OF, UH, VISION THIS RETREAT AND VISION, MAYBE NOT, UM, YOU KNOW, A CURTAILED RETREAT, IF WE ARE, IF WE ARE FEELING REALLY GOOD ABOUT THESE PARTICULAR AREAS, BUT MY NOTES SAY BEING PRECISE IN LANGUAGE, UM, BEING DILIGENT ABOUT, UH, TRAINING, UM, CREATING ASSET, AN ASSET MAP, OR AT LEAST COUNTING OUR ASSETS AND REALLY LEVERAGING PARTNERSHIPS AS IT RELATES TO BEST PRACTICES.THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE SORT OF MY HIGH LEVEL IDEAS THAT I'VE BEEN SORT OF GLEANING FROM, FROM THIS WONDERFUL GROUP.
SO, UM, ROLE, I THINK WE HAVE OUR MARCHING ORDERS.
ANY OTHER, I GUESS, ANY OTHER, I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER BUSINESS, IS THERE ANY OTHER BUSINESS? ALL RIGHT.
FOLKS AS USUAL, A WONDERFUL DISCUSSION AND A REALLY ROBUST DISCUSSION, AND WE'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE NEXT STEP AND WE APPRECIATE THIS.
UM, W UH, COUNCIL MEMBER METEOR IS ON THIS CALL.
WE HAVE BEEN, UH, WE HAVE BEEN TALKING TO YOUR COLLEAGUES AND WE'RE COMING UP TO SEE YOU.
I HOPE TO SEE EVERYBODY HOPEFULLY AT THE REGIONAL SUMMIT, NOVEMBER 5TH.
UM, AND WE WILL HAVE, UM, MORE INFORMATION COMING FROM, FROM RAUL AND TEAM.